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Do we have a list of the most popular complaints from users, developers, potential users, tech people who think Nostr sucks, people who gave up Nostr? nostr:npub1zafcms4xya5ap9zr7xxr0jlrtrattwlesytn2s42030lzu0dwlzqpd26k5
Discussion
lol. Perhaps I will get inspired to start a newsletter… There’s the easy answer and then there is the question of why is everything here a copy of something else. At a 10,000 ft level ActivityPub and Farcaster innovated with their protocols and experiences. Nostr and ATProtocol only innovated at the protocol level. Both face challenges as a result.
Product focused thinking and writing is sorely needed.
I think there are quite a few new “things” built on nostr (zaps, e-cash, blossom, dvm..).
The distributed nature of nostr and the median lone wolf dev means that there is an uphill battle to build performantly on nostr, even without the new “things”/elements.
Way behind in the priorities are where theoretically the interoperability magic of nostr creates a not yet existing elsewhere experience.
I thought about zaps after I posted, but the key term is experience. Zaps repurposed an existing experience which has led to all sorts of adoption problems. Not because they are inherently bad - the concept is good, but the experience is problematic on several levels.
Ecash is walking a line of legality that has too many unknowns.
I’m not sure what blossom is - but would be curious to know more.
My understanding of DVMs is that they are custom feeds similar to what Bluesky has. This is playing on the edges of experience innovation, but it’s not enough. Exhibit A is all the chatter on Bluesky about echo chambers and needing to remember to go look at the feed w/ flowers.
It is 1000% amazing that people are experimenting. And it should absolutely continue. There’s so much untapped potential to build new and better experiences from the protocol.
It’s a public file storage protocol. Think google drive with nostr identity, and auth.
Initial nostr application is media storage.
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom/tree/master
https://github.com/hzrd149/blossom-drive
An example instance