Yes! People do like to talk about Nostr like we are running a giant LAN party or something. Decentralization is a spectrum, we should be ok with that.
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Yup. Also a decentralised system is only as decentralised as the least decentralised critical element in it. If the least decentralised critical element is in fact pretty centralised then it's just decentralisation theatre, adding complexity and slowness for no real gain.
furthermore, a problem that is not yet talked about by 'nostr' is that many, not complicating things too much, many decide to only use the relays and servers that are normally on all clients, causing only those relays to gain power, apart from that many are using cloudflare and third-party servers causing the same thing many don't even remember how cloudflare took control of a mod page, forcing them to delete everything they didn't like, so there was still a lot of dependency.
Worst part to me is the dependency on GitHub
But this is where interoperability is the escape hatch. GitHub is not so much a dependency as it is a choice. There are tons of choices.
Why are people trying to put *inside* of nostr instead of encouraging self-hosted gitea or the like.
There aren't tons of choices for where to download most apps from.
I don't see a point to something like gitea. If it was going to defeat Microsoft, it probably would have by now.
App stores are definitely an issue.
But in terms of Microsoft, who cares about their size, if you have an alternative then your well being does not require them to be defeated.
How can you want to move away from GitHub but somehow see it as not connected to any impact on Microsoft Nostr apps won't all have GitHub repos and often show the GitHub logo on their homepages and stuff when we get something good enough to fuck up Microsoft. Because they'll be using the new good thing
I'm moving to Gitworkshop and using github as my backup.
and that is why all the time I am saying that it is necessary to make tutorials so that a person can host their bloossom servers, set up their own relays, since if they are not encouraged to set up their own services, we will continue in the same cycle of giving power to something only to then go to another.
If we get a radicle fork / clone with better UX to promote seeding, that should solve it. nostr:naddr1qq78g6r994nkjargw43z6cm4wfjj6unpv35kxmr994cryupdw3hhyttwdaehgu3dd4hkuetjdukhqun0dfjkxapd0fuk6mm8v4hqygrhwmpj6jcar69l92tt40458tv6mc2hh5mrmzdc07mrumc524vg3qpsgqqqw4rsc69a68