The rate of change on Nostr is really exciting but also a little scary. In the last 4 weeks there has been more change than some protocols see in a year. Nostr is clearly a invasive species. Let’s make sure we are replacing the old ecosystem with one that more diverse *and ultimately healthier for humans*.

Public-key-cryptography-as-identity flips the power structure on its head, but it has plenty of its own problems and by itself doesn’t solve any of the higher-order human problems that are endemic to social media. I hope as we solve some of the basic technical problems on Nostr we start seeing more innovation in the social part of social media.

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What do you want to see more of?

I would love to see more Nostr apps that respect basic safety features like edit, delete, and expiring messages. Apps focused on groups, with governance models other than admin/moderator. Reputation/trust systems that help us model more accurately how human relationship work IRL. Tools that empower small businesses and creators to more directly own their relationships with their customers. Apps that support multiple identities and social key backup because one person != one keypair.

How would edit, delete, and expiring messages work on nostr?

What type of governance models could be tried here?//“Apps focused on groups, with governance models other than admin/moderator.”

Has this been done successfully anywhere?//“Reputation/trust systems that help us model more accurately how human relationship work IRL.”

Can the customers own the relationship?//“Tools that empower small businesses and creators to more directly own their relationships with their customers.”

Better to have multiple apps for this, no?//“Apps that support multiple identities and social key backup because one person != one keypair.”

So many questions! But I’m here for it haha.

Delete is in NIP-09, edit is in NIP-23, expiring message are in NIP-40. The problems are solved technically, just not implemented in many clients.

I don’t know of any reputation systems that are really good! I haven’t done much research there.

Customers always own their relationship with business owners, because they can stop paying at any time. What I had in mind here are content-creators who get locked into a platform’s walled garden: Twitch, YouTube, Patreon, etc. They can’t leave and take their customers to a different app.

Maybe it is better to have multiple apps! Idk.

I think it is a matter of time before all these things get implemented. There’s been other features that have taken priority that’s all.