I do not like when people tell me how I should be experiencing something. If that is your philosophy I am no longer interested in Amethyst.
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That's ok, you have options.
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Thanks for all you've done, and keeping Amethyst open source. While I disagree with your philosophy, you are clearly a very talented designer anyway and I wish you and Amethyst continued success.
I had been wondering about the design choices you've made for the app and this post explains it. I like having a lot of control over my experience in apps and games, so Amethyst always felt too rigid. I was hoping that would change over time given that it's all still so new, I thought customizability would come eventually. I see now that's not in the cards so I will begin looking elsewhere. 🧡🫂
But you can simply fork it and do it as you like or use a previous version...
If you don't like it then code a new client yourself. Using any OSS, without you freely choosing to modify it or not, is effectively letting other people tell you how to experience it. A client dev makes decisions all the time that effect your experience.
Each of the clients defines how you experience the Nostr network and the protocol. That's the point of clients - they run on your device and you are in charge of them. Now I think you got caught on feeling that someone tells you how you should experience something. But I don't think that's what's happening here.
In this case someone made a packaged opinionated experience available to you and it's up to you whether to use it.
And so I think if you like Amethyst, then you should just continue using it.
Either way there are other options on Android, like Plebstr, Iris or even using one of the PWAs.
I want options and customisability in an app. His design philosophy doesn't seem to allow for that. It's about time I tried some other clients anyway.
