Websites are the absolute worst pile of garbage.
I would love to have a keet channel. I would like to be able to create some sort of browsable & sharable content repository. I would like to have some sort of store in a nostr marketplace.
But FUCK websites & wordpress & web hosting services & wordpress plugins & apache servers & that whole clusterfuck. We need to end the legacy web.
You mentioned wordpress twice and threw in websites as a whole along with service providers?
newsflash... keet is no panacea. And stuff like holepunch is more niche than nostr for good reason
The big pile of tedious, expensive, incompatible bullshit involved in trying to host your own content is why centralized social networks took over & are now able to manipulate everyone. If we are going to win we have to offer peer to peer solutions & super user friendly ways to host & share content, that are as easy as facebook without the censorship & ads & other nonsense.
I don't think keet & holepunch will be more niche than nostr in a year or so from now. I'm not sure nostr will survive long term, but I think holepunch is likely to really change things. Maybe the two will be able to work together.
Hosting or seeding is always going to cost more in resources, but if we want a network that actually grows & functions long term, seeding should not be any harder than clicking share or making a post.
I think nostr will survive if it adopts DID and DWNs
Exactly, the separation between server and client and the huge complexity and annoyance in hosting is exactly where the imbalance is that deeply centralized everything around the web.
It literally all stems from the difficulty in hosting through network configuration, the complex stack of website creation, the difficulty and tedium in ongoing management, the lack of persistent identity (thus social connections are owned by the site, not you), and the high cost of bandwidth on public servers…
All of this leads to:
huge centralized hosts, smaller hosts that simply resell huge hosts, centralized app platforms with ridiculous margins for owners purely due to network control, and centralized+censored social media that’s horribly difficult to compete against.
If you can solve Identity and connection without a third party AND kill the separation between client and server… you have fundamentally changed ALL of the above dynamics that tend heavily toward centralization.
YES YES YES
It does not need to be so hard to self-host content.
I set up LNbits and BTCpayServer on Umbrel using the cloudflare tunnel app without a hosting service.
LNbits has a nostr marketplace too, but you must install the nostr client before it will work. It's not clear without using the documentation.
What's wrong with WordPress?
Just always seems to be an infinite headache.
Guy pointed out when we were talking earlier that when you say there's no good way to share files, some computer person will say "just use FTP" & that's great for less than 1% or the people in less than 1% of the situations where I need to send a file. These problems need to be solved in a way that is mobile device & parent levels of user friendly. One click sharing from any device to any device, any file size, no middle man risk, etc.
But it's almost here 😊
That's true.
