Internet up the early 2000s was about finding order in chaos. Lots of energy was bottom-up. Search engines and aggregators would just help you find it; and finding the good content did sometimes feel like uncovering a secret treasure.
How to bring back the chaos?
Nostr brings that caos back to some degree, due to its public private key nature. People may lose/ spin up new identities at will. Different servers which may or may not have certain events.
Indexing/ search basically does not exist to my knowledge.
Havent tried but try finding a certain discussion on nostrs early days about a nip design would be difficult. No wonder that's why people still use centralized services such as github and telegram plus more for planing and "higher level design" than nostr at the moment
I agree it has a lot in common. I think it will need orders of magnitude more economic activity in order to bring the same market dynamics that made the early internet work.
It might succeed.
Aggregators were the OG influencers, they were curators of the chaos of the early web. We need more of this role in nostr. There's a ton to discover already.
For me, nostr feels similar for the first time since then.
