Nostr Web Client

It's been an interesting ride since my "Decentralizované sociální sítě" talk (in czech) at Prague's Paralelní Polis in July 2023.

I watched AT Protocol grow from 40K to 40M users in real time. Watched "decentralization" morph from architecture into theater. Watched people I respect make compromises and bow to groupthink. Got a front-row seat to US cancel culture and everything that comes with it. Incredibly valuable experience.

Meanwhile, as Bluesky exploded, I kept hoping Nostr would move somewhere. Instead, it feels frozen. Zero adoption, and people actually celebrate the smallness and coziness - the exact things that vanish with scale.

I thought AT Protocol and Nostr were technical opposites moving toward the same goal. I was wrong. They're opposites moving away from each other, and the gap widens every day.

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Sebastix 6d ago

What is your time preference?

Garbage nsec 6d ago

Time preference in context of sustained negative growth is meaningless.

Nostr is fading, numbers are at their lowest in 3 or 4 years, and continue to steadily decline. Unless something changes, increase the "time preference" and the numbers just go down even further, nostr just fades out even more.

the axiom 6d ago

I see you commenting here often

why are you here?

Garbage nsec 6d ago

To shir shit up and pass the time while I wait for stuff to render.

Nobody stirs shit up here, it's all LFG and GM, very boring.

Someone's gotta make an effort.

the axiom 6d ago

thank you for your effort, that is a good thing indeed

the axiom 6d ago

to I think 3 years ago nostr wasnt even launched right?

anyway I think even the so-called "builders" have left, I haven't seen nostr:npub1l2vyh47mk2p0qlsku7hg0vn29faehy9hy34ygaclpn66ukqp3afqutajft release anything in years

Garbage nsec 6d ago

Jack invested like in late 2022 so 3 years ago, and I think that was when nostr was 2 years old already and had indie traction.

Pablo could get a lot of money for the highlighter.com domain, he should sell that and pull a MySpace Tom.

To be fair, there are a lot of good ideas in nostr, I think in the end the basic signed-event concept will spread. This kind1 bubble-world is kinda dying though.

the axiom 6d ago

you speak as if Nostr wanted to be small