Hot take. 🌶️

Some of you aren’t ready to hear this, but Nostr in its current state doesn’t have a hope of scaling to millions of users until content can be removed as easily as it can be posted.

This means:

– All clients offer a delete option that permanently hides a note that a user requested to delete, even from other clients

– All note types are editable to allow users to fix tags and typos

– Users can un-like and un-repost content if they change their mind

– Account deletion allows for all content posted by a user to be purged

Maybe some or all these things are possible, maybe not.

Don’t shoot the messenger.

Spent the day with a legend from the early IBM research days who contributed to the advance of AI and the internet. Deeply understands how protocols develop in layers.

Guess what we talked about?

This is very true. It helps if you've done it all from scratch imho, as you are able to guide it better. Still impressive what it can do.

Good morning ✌️🧡

I'm increasingly impressed with what can be vibe coded these days. Now it has learnt to deploy simple backends. Still a ways to go, but the future looks promising.

OtherStuff is much more work and requires more and higher skill sets, that's why, and you need to have a deep understanding of the topic covered. You're not competing with cute little software widgets like X or WhatsApp, but with large, complex, specialized applications like Teams or GitHub or Jira or SAP or Turbotax or Amazon.

That's why just throwing a bunch of money at whoever you think is cool doesn't get that job done. You have to find the right team for the job and they have to be willing to work on the same damn thing for years. Because developing on Nostr is inherently faster, it attracts developers who want to get done quickly, which means they usually run out of energy after a couple of weeks or months because they're easily bored.

That's why they don't test or bug-fix or straighten out the DevOps: too tedious, too slow, too boring.

Even many of the people being paid to work on this stuff full-time don't have a serious attitude about it because the serious people already have jobs writing software for serious things, like calibrating motors, planning logistics tours, or back office management.

That's why we went straight to the OtherStuff.

If nobody knows who you are and/or nobody likes you, and you have no funds or attention, you have to do the hard stuff other people won't do. It's just like IRL.

You need to fix your lightning network address if you want to receive sats.

GM

You need to fix your lightning network address if you want to receive sats.

Pretty much.

Respectfully hahaha