I’m sorry I missed your #interoperability talk. I was hoping for a livestream. Why is interoperability important, and what can devs do to embrace it?
Discussion
There were technical difficulties, first talk of the day. The workshop was centered on discovery with CI/DevOps engineers on how to automate negative interop checking. As number of nostr apps grows, the complexity and count of interactions grows exponentially.
Negative interoperability is a frustrating experience for the end user: whether its a hardcore nostrich, or a grandma:
“why is my contact list wiped?”
“why cant I follow people?”
“why cant I find this note?”
Positive interoperability is the unique strength of nostr:
“I can just plug in my keys in another app for a new experience”.
“I can sell my art to not just everyone on my app, but everyone on all apps!”
On negative interoperability this is what the github.com/nostrability issue register is today.
I’ve received feedback to track and encourage positive interoperability.
Example: https://github.com/nostrability/nostrability/issues/61.
I’m glad to hear you’re looking ahead and into automation tools. What are some of the challenges of encouraging various developers and open source projects to add positive #interoperability?
Ask me again in a couple months!
There are resource constraints, differing priorities, and maybe lack of awareness.