An interactive web app i've been working on, inspired by illustrations posted a few months ago.

The idea just wouldn't go away and i had to see how it would look in action.

Something to it ?

What do you think ?

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https://video.nostr.build/b54ae1aab43ea7ff27df5572ec7305589b410c57cbe217e9a758c8bfc6a2a073.mp4

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I think it's cool but I'm not sure if it's worth the trouble. I always want to do that kind of thing myself, but I would have to learn the most basic of the basics and would take a million years.

If I was to do it thought I would shove technicalities everywhere to make sure people grasp the entire complexity of Nostr (which isn't a lot) while they watch the animations.

Not saying you should do this.

That's amazing. Some people said they wish this diagram was animated. But it's the first time I've seen it actually animated.

I think being able to see the data flowing from a bird's-eye view is useful for beginners to get an overall image of the Nostr protocol. I think it's very good if you decide the target (the person you want to show this to and the understanding that the viewer will gain from this animation) and then decide the level of abstraction and content of the image before creating it.

What I find difficult is...

Technical people can fully understand Nostr with this bird's-eye view and the NIPs repository and other technical information, but non-technical people can't understand it if we explain too much detail, and they don't need to understand it.

So I think it's important to decide the target and create it.

What about a birds eye view of twitter/ facebook/instagram centralization and control on the left, and the complexity of mastodon/ActivityPub on right.

The simplicity of nostr would be in the middle. The user can move their mouse over to see both polarizations.

Like one continuous map with darker elements on either side.

It would summarize the design tradeoff even for non-technical people.