because people take the easy way out and don't focus on the last 10%. the last 10% is the hardest. it's how you gain and retain customers.
Discussion
There's a lot of basic functionality missing that users expect from social media. Handling of media is a huge one. 16 MB avatars and master quality video are handled gracefully by centralized platforms. Nostr doesn't have this at the protocol level, and client & server devs can never agree on anything so I fear it's unlikely to get better anytime soon.
I imagine video will be solved sometime after DMs are finally fixed 🤣
The great @sammeans said on a nostr:nprofile1qqs2m82zyqlayjqw5tjuf3j9jwszwuy2a03tq24xp0tmr4nxm2jmprgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnfdenx7tcprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurvv438xarj9e3k7mf0lnphux show recently “maybe nostr:nprofile1qqsgsp3h9t6329dlfthcqu53h9jg06scymykdf2ed09gv6tmtk9j80qpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnhd9ex2erwv46zu6ns0wtepn children will benefit from all of this one day” wanted to laugh and cry all at the same time 🤣😪😂😟😥
perhaps. the great nostr:npub1nyrfgkqutqfyfzwskzxl5nf2w536wya3d2pf5z7pvxkc90laey2sfclzp9 has said that nostr is a 10 year project. i'd like to think he's wrong here, but if he isn't, that means we are only about half way there if you count from the original whitepaper. i think divine is going to light a fire under all of our asses and there's nothing like an emergency to get our devs building.
Yes it's sad I agree 😢 So much promise, but devs continually want to reinvent the wheel rather than looking at solutions that exist and work already.
i remember arguing about 50MB profile pictures literally 3 years ago after i had used 10GB of mobile data the first 5 days of january 2023. 3 years later, it's somewhat of an issue. people don't like image proxy caches or thing that is centralizing so the solution there would be to have clients not display profile pictures over a certain size and clients optimizing media before uploading like Amethyst does.
That's one area where Amethyst fails funnily enough. It doesn't handle avatar uploads, but leaves it to the user, only having a field to enter an URL 😕