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Often, this is true. However, the market will not address every need. The market has largely botched US healthcare and health insurance, for example. And we certainly would not have our national, state and local parks system, or relatively clean water and air, and many other essentials, if not for government and nonprofits. Military, roads, bridges, fire and police departments, etc. So a balance is needed that restrains the market and meets needs it won’t, while not restraining it too much.

Would you believe me if I told you I have to hodl back some notes from y’all 🤣

Turns out users actually like agency. They don't really want an app with a single button that tries to do everything for them, specially because they know the single-button won't really do what they actually want.

I look at global, for all of my relays.

They're very PG-13, but, rarely, I look at the Conversations tab in Amethyst and it's littered with pictures of desperate girls, real or imagined, with their crotch exposed and staring, vapidly-grinning past the camera. I mute and report them all.

And then I wonder if the guys on here are happy about that, or depressed that people think that's all they want to look at.

I guess that's what 90% of the Internet is. That, and pictures of twenty-somethings performing questionable excersizes at the gym, while wearing pantyhose as pants.

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So bananas with a side of meat?

Bookmarked, thank you! Always looking for more good docs

Prediction: to compete with proprietary nostr relays, others will have to build their own proprietary apis to deliver similar value. People will stop caring about interoperability and nostr just becomes isolated twitter-like islands just like before. Most clients then become light clients for these proprietary relays, and users lose control over which relays they can choose to talk to.

This is starting to happen today, how do we prevent this? VCs and people trying to make money won’t care about the hard work of protocol dev and interoperability, in fact, its in their interest to explicitly make it harder for other clients to have similar functionality via protocol improvements.

nostr could go down a very bad path very soon. Which way do you choose anon? Give up on the protocol for shiny new features? Or support less featured clients focused on interoperability? I suspect most will choose the former 😔

The normals are not okay: