Here is the issue. When you have a protocol where fixes need to be made. Improvements need to be done. Yet no one can agree definitively on how to proceed forward. On a platform (GitHub) run by an evil organization. Controlled by a select group of individuals (Guardians of the Nips). What you get is a clusterfuck of people going off in their own directions deciding what is important. While rarely agreeing on what to do in order to move forward gracefully.

By giving power to the people who can vote on the issues. By utilizing a combination of sats and proof that they are humans who are active within the community who pass a web of trust background. The developers will no longer stop ignoring the problems if they wish to remain in line with the protocol.

Right now as it is Nostr is like a bunch of independent kingdoms running around in different directions doing many things that they THINK are the most important. While having a loose affiliation by choosing which nips to implement, or ignore completely. Paying dev bounties does nothing but promote alliances within certain nostr kindoms that benefit certain clients. Not the protocol as a whole.

Right now I am watching Nostr fragment before my very eyes. Developers are giving up, because they have very little leadership, direction, or can collectively agree on anything that would improve the situation. Our market share is diminishing. People leave every day due to either broken clients, or lack of engagement. If we do not find a way to come together NOW as a community to improve upon our situation. Buckle down, be more professional, start working with consensus public voting out in the open. On our own git servers funded by donations. Then we are going to die a slow painful death as a protocol.

This is the hard fact of life. Adapt, or die. We are not adapting to fix problems, or innovate fast enough. We just have a bunch of people bitching on their own that Nostr is dead. Instead of manning and womaning up to patch our shit and get to work. We need to revamp this protocol and reassess our situation from the ground up. This means focus groups. Taking surveys from the community. Asking we the people what we need. Then working together to make it happen now.