Subnostr

Overall some of the worst ideas I can imagine.

"There are countless reasons a developer might not apply for a grant - they may not want a grant, or be too busy, or not interested in the commitment - so others should apply for them. But also there shouldn't be an application process.

And applications never close, they just endlessly pile up into future rounds.

Also the decision process is going to be more granular and documented, so the amount of admin work for each larger and larger round also gets larger.

And that decision process will be very objective and out in the open, but also "people who spam the process" will be blocked, and it'll be entirely clear who is "spamming" and who is just "really eager to nominate 10 developers a day who didn't actually ask for grants to begin with".

Wtf

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🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

Surprised you're into bureaucracy

vinney...axkl 1y ago

I'm not. She's making suggestions that add absurd amounts of overhead, communal decision-making and arbitrary inclusion. Looks like a recipe for a zoo of spam, low-quality projects, disinterested project leaders (they didn't even want to fill out a form?), arguments over moderation, and ultimately will _lead_ to a bureaucratic nightmare of upkeep just to keep a weak pulse.

I'm more in favor of few, focused, motivated parties making high-quality decisions with more authority over the resources they command. Fewer, authoritative, sovereign CEOs. Not a committee.

More like how we got Bitcoin, less like how governments run.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

You just want to do business with jack I think 🫵

vinney...axkl 1y ago

I just recognize when it's necessary to cathedral rather than to bazaar.

In early days when protocols and clients are emerging and being defined, you want focused consolidation of power. Imagine if fiatjaf had to write the original Nostr spec in collaboration with 25 other people, with every major choice going through a "decision making process"?

You open the bazaar later once certain core components are essentially frozen and immune.

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit 1y ago

Nah. The core components that will end up frozen and immune are ones like my relay concept, which don't require any closing of any bazaar. Closed bazaars are great for dying with lots of money, not so great for making core components that end up frozen and immune in the nature of the world

liminal 🦠 1y ago

Looks updated with a different framing

vinney...axkl 1y ago

....not really? I just re-read it. Seems largely the same.