Build something properly and the users will eventually come. Until then who cares. It’s about building the car not winning the race. Gaining users without building the car right is meaningless IMO. Play the long-term.
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Building something 'properly' means building, learning, and refining based on real usage (with actual users) rather than waiting for theoretical perfection. I’m grateful for devs who value user feedback. IMO.
A million cooks in the kitchen will just lead to a mess. Luckily with nostr I can test my app without releasing because it has a ton of users already! All nostr accounts and posts appear.
Compromising on basic functionality in exchange for scale is exactly what all the shitcoiners do. There are basic principles that you just don’t violate. Building an app isn’t the same as building something that’s supposed to be embedded with cypherpunk values. If you don’t get it, you aren’t a cypherpunk.
Ah now the ad hominems come out. Please educate me on how to be more cypherpunk. I just find it disingenuous that other devs call Primal (an open sourced client with an open sourced caching relay) “proprietary”.
Anyway, I’m genuinely curious, what exactly do you have a problem with regarding Primal? I learned today about Primal supposedly caching images and then pointing towards their own server instead of the original url in the imeta tag. I was surprised and really don’t like that choice, but I haven’t confirmed it myself yet and want to learn more about why they do that. As a dev yourself, what are your major issues with how they do things?
Lmao — it literally reads from one server and I can’t change it. How is that decentralized? Decentralization entails a distribution of computers I can switch between freely. You understand nothing. 🤦♂️ like I said if you don’t get it, you’ve got some learning to do.
You don’t understand. They built a server that only their app connects to isn’t a nostr relay — it’s a primal relay. Literally no other nostr apps can connect to it.
We built a relay too, but any app can connect to it… Damus and beyond.. it supports custom features our Nestr app has, but we made sure to ensure backwards-compatibility. That’s how you build on a protocol.