Nostr is the open ecosystem alternative to the super app.
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Elon wanted to turn Twitter into the everything app. Oof.
Protocol > App.
elegantly worded - the nostr universe !
This is an important idea from #[0] and there’s a lot to unpack here
#[1]
Existing apps/super-apps are run by full stack orgs that have many layers of services bundled together. We often discuss the UI and the database layers, but these orgs have also have policy, customer service, algorithmic discovery, advertising sales and operations, eng infrastructure, accounting/finance, HR teams, etc.
The beauty/magic of nostr is not just that it separates UI from datastore. Those are obviously important. But in separating those the full-stack orgs also get unbundled. The unbundling allows for OSS or layer-specific companies to be built providing solutions which fill consumer/business needs better than any single centralized provider has organizational bandwidth to handle.
Huge net benefit accrues to the consumer who has the freedom to choose which tools serve their needs best!
Agree. We have seen Nostr client apps and micro apps so far. How do you see the integration happening between them?
I think we’re early days so not sure we just pick from what’s on the menu.
Maybe certain clients help showcase/contain/simplify the UX of collections of microapps. Maybe a new open-source “OS-like-layer” emerges that doesn’t feel like a Twitter clone, but feels like something else?
I think we need to do a bunch more work on integration with micro apps. For example, if the client i'm using doesn't support longer form markdown content, how do i know that the people i'm following post that. A kind of, 'x person is posting y type events, here are some apps you can use to see them' or something like that.
The primary social clients need to help discovery of the micro apps...
Open protocol, easy to tinker, micro-apps —> specialization of labor
How do we prevent spam
paid relay, extra service using current spam filters tech like deep learning, behaviour analysis … but the main reason is creating an account on nostr is too easy, just generateKey(). So maybe POW?
think about it #[0]