Subnostr

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I, for one, welcome our single-client overlord.

A SuperApp client looks like Nostrudel plus relay.tools

Do not fear innovation, even if it looks different than what you had in mind.

If we all use the same client, then relays become the focal point of decentralization. This is a good thing.

Clients are irrelevant in the face of a so-called SuperApp, and that's okay.

Kind-events are the protocol.

Relays are the protocol.

Users are the protocol.

Clients are just a limited gateway to using the protocol.

If we desire to be limitless then there would only need to be one client.

Nostr is a decentralized SuperApplication upon a decentralized protocol.

Nostr-CLI would never demand a competitor if it is built correctly.

Neither should Nostr-GUI.

I only worry that it may be realized long after relays have been forgotten.

Laeserin 1y ago

We at GitCitadel are some of the very few people working actively on all fronts against centralization, so I find it deeply ironic that I inspired his post.

1) We're renting 2 relays and privately running 2 others.

2) We moved the NIPs repo to the Wiki

3) We founded a group to build an alternative to GitHub and to create an entire suite of alternate, professional-grade Nostr clients

4) We have refused to apply for centralized grant funding, preferring to simply pay out of pocket for everything and protest

5) We market alternative Nostr clients every damn day and use them regularly

6) We've set up a remote gitserver and buildserver

And etc.

But we and what army, sir?

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Laeserin 1y ago

The amount of malicious preoccupation that man has for me is unhealthy.

Rent free, fr.

Laeserin 1y ago

We're even writing our own NDK, all the way down to the memory allocation and encryption libraries, so that we can offer other people an alternative codebase for building their apps and the protocol can't be dictated to them because they have a choice of viable libraries.

Like 😂 fuck him, fr.

Tristan Brice Velloza Kildaire 1y ago

Out of pocket funding is based. I have a seething dislike for state-funded grants. That being said, doing ANYTHING out of pocket also means total independance (or at least a lot more than you'd get from some other funder).

How does gitserver and buildserver work btw? Got some links I can check out?

Laeserin 1y ago

They're just Jenkins and Gitea servers and we use them internally, on our team's remote server on the GitCitadel.eu website. They're not open to the public, but anyone can do the same.

Laeserin 1y ago

And, yes, we have total independence. Nobody can threaten to pull our funding because we have no open contracts or external debts.

We work only for ourselves and for the users, and the users will be our only customers. Our hope is that some users will see value in our integrity, that our culture of intellectual freedom will continue to draw in talent -- including talented users! -- and that our independence leads to superior products.

It might not, but it's worth a try.