i have plenty of highlights from the book - it’s multidimensional, layered with anthropology, history, and today’s world analysis. worth reading, packed with statistics and research.
plenty of room to form your own opinion.
history often rhymes! 🫡
“digital neighborhoods” as coined by nostr:npub1wmr34t36fy03m8hvgl96zl3znndyzyaqhwmwdtshwmtkg03fetaqhjg240 pushes my analogy beyond just foss:
nostr:nevent1qqsptgvrn89dmkh9l0lx8qep77av5sn3j22drm0kf93p0xt88lkj9uqa8w6f3
yes, however, generally ppl don’t care about that
nostr:nevent1qqsvuvrlhmjtn5tmk3jmsngdqt5elftykmwfydzhrcg8j86mq3fnc5cqy4tva
> human social layer 🧡
i think the concept of frost/frens cosigning as a way to restore one’s identity could be a huge step toward broader adoption!
thanks for the clarification. just looking at things from a regulatory perspective (a client and relay server registered under a single entity)
> a gold standard won out over silver mostly by **accident**.
rereading nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a book, i’m starting to think future descriptions of bitcoin and fiat could follow a similar path…
“a bitcoin standard won out over the dollar mostly by accident.”
history shifts overnight, with small things growing big, and the once significant becoming irrelevant.
there are only two parameters we must watch: time and motion, as probability is simply the outcome of accumulated time and repeated exposure.
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i think damus or primal might be vulnerable as they combine both a client and relay, making it harder to “remove some liability,” echoing nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m's recent remarks about twitter.
nostr:nevent1qqsyzanp0vq6c9zpcwys4l67eq2s5fr6p54ygpwyf2z0yfenqahhdmsqzareh
generally, people don’t care about privacy. they prefer a sort of social agreement with authorities that goes like this:
> gov, do whatever you want, just keep life steady for the majority.
only “steady” is defined differently depending on whether you live in the us, eu, russia, china, etc.
hobbits - that’s who we are as a society.
any new nostriches after the wedding? or at least a few orange pilled?
will the future protocol’s gravity center around relays or clients?
nostr clients don’t store information, relays do. intuitively, they seem more exposed, like p2p torrent users, but they’re also more spread out, making them harder to target. however, this doesn’t mean client creators are completely off the hook - just less vulnerable than centralized apps that manage everything - users, databases, and platforms - all in one place.
thinking about this comment from the nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx / nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m discussion:
nostr:nevent1qqsyzanp0vq6c9zpcwys4l67eq2s5fr6p54ygpwyf2z0yfenqahhdmsqzareh
Great fireside between nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx and nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m at Nostriga. I got a chance to listen to it now.
Regarding the question of whether Nostr will have more users than Twitter/X in five years (~500 million), my base case would be no, actually. And I say that as a huge Nostr fan and daily user.
In the long arc of time, Nostr's addressable market is nearly unlimited (basically everyone who uses the internet could be using Nostr in some form), but I expect somewhat of a slower burn. Infrastructure build-out type stuff. And breaching a network effect with a better solution is generally quite a long uphill climb.
To me, Nostr is successful once it starts serving tens of millions of people well. I expect it to be more of a quality over quantity thing for a while. Bitcoin is almost 16 years in and still isn't at 500 million users. But for many of those people, it was lifechanging.
I'd like to be surprised to the upside, but I also don't want people to think that if Nostr is "only" at tens of millions of people in five years, or 100+ million but still sub-Twitter, that it underachieved. It's tiny right now, and numbers anywhere approaching that would be a huge increase.
Nostr is a great improvement for everyone using it. But sometimes it takes people time to see why a given solution is better than what they have, or to realize they have a problem at all.
So in the meantime I monitor Nostr's success by the quality and quantity of developer activity, the capability of the protocol as a freedom tool or the shortcomings it still has for that use case, the quality of the conversations throughout the ecosystem, how many people consider it to be lifechanging tech compared to centralized social media, and in time, steady growth.
quality > quantity 🧡
works but i only see my zaps
my favorite quote
> you can’t build a company that means to serve as a town square without having sth underneath it that no single entity owns.
> that’s what nostr represents to me. you can remove some of that liability and you can get back to the idea of what twitter was meant to be, and what it ultimately is.
~ nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
this project, right? it’s extremely promising! nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 🤙
nostr:nevent1qqszlav4jw5wxl6mpn7n4w42la42en88ttzh3a4kjmzwy5jqtjtsseqf2vum5
listening to yesterday’s nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx conversation:
> you can’t build a company that means to serve as a town square without having sth underneath it that no single entity owns.
> that’s what nostr represents to me. you can remove some of that liability and you can get back to the idea of what twitter was meant to be, and what it ultimately is.
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is the future of twitter to become the nostr client?
in the end, is it bad or good for nostr case?