People criticizing nostr apps for their quality are making multiple category errors:

- Individuals (or very small teams) can't produce the same level of quality as large teams, but teams can't exercise as much creativity as individuals

- Optimal UX comes from a need for growth, stemming from a need for profit. Grantees and hobbyists do not have this motive. But for-profit businesses won't be principled about putting the protocol first, while grantees and hobbyists may be.

- Good UX partly comes from experience, and existing best practices. Very little of this is established yet for nostr, both from a design and engineering perspective. We're making it up as we go along.

If you want something new, you have to take the bad with the good. When I started this, my expectation was that it would be a ten year project with a 0% chance of success. Two years in, I'd say we're doing extremely well.

I don't care about growth, and won't for a while. I'm not in it for user numbers or zaps, I want to use software to give my kids a better life. Drop the high time preference, and dig in, because this is going to be a long ride.

With all that said, I do feel a new wave coming in the next year or so, as best practices crystallize, and as existing projects reach a point of maturity where their developers recognize their own limits and need for help. I look forward to seeing teams coalesce to push forward what the creatives started.

This might take the form of more for-profit businesses, but I hope that devs (including myself) will be able to swallow their ego and pitch in on projects that don't belong to them without having to get "hired". The difficulty of this on nostr is of course that the scope of the protocol leaves so many tantalizing possibilities to work on.

For myself, I remain focused on my original mission of serving real-life communities. However, the longer I work on the problem, the larger it becomes. It turns out that there has in fact been decades of work in the space, and there continue to exist many unsolved problems, even without introducing decentralization. It would be hubristic to think that my first attempt at the problem would be either correct or successful. Iteration, exploration, and education are all necessary.

It's very likely that it's impossible for a single developer to cover even a single use case of nostr satisfactorily. We'll all eventually need help. This is just the nature of the project we've set for ourselves.

Went to Taliesen in wisconsin to tour frank lloyd wright’s work. Left inspired,

I’m going to write about this experience any other writers interested in sharing each others’ ideas? #asknostr #buildnostr #writing

Glad to help a fellow pleb with a fresh haircut today

Love it! Let me know how it goes!

I never count on the State for help. You really shouldn't either. It is easy in a disaster to imagine the US government sweeping in to solve everything because it is so powerful. But we see that it is not. You have to look after yourself and your family.

In disasters it is easy to rack up big fiat numbers of damage too. Well remember the reason why those numbers grow each year is not because more damage occurs per se it is because of inflation and the building in areas that don't need intense human development.

Climate change isn't responsible for known 100 or 300 year flood zones, fault lines, forest fires, tornado paths etc. The earth is old and historic changes are way more dramatic than a single hurricane.

We imagine the world to be a static environment because it is what we have by an large experienced but we are silly little humans who don't know much at all and can be easily swept away into the dustbin of cosmic forces.

I just wanted to say thank you guys so much!!! I’m adding all the says I had in my wallet to it, but in BTC on chain we’ve got about 1.8mil ($1200 worth), and on Lightning we got another 500k sats or so ($600).

(NoBoDy UsES LiGhTNinG BtW🥴)

Nostr is such a demonstration of the world we are building. Multiple friends and family are blown away that I could just make a post and people from anywhere in the world could just donate instantly and sats start streaming in.

A number of people in our home towns are also getting together church donations, packing them up and heading to the mountains. The in laws even sent a Lightning donation! (One of their very few Lightning transactions, so that was fun)

They are going to need help for a long time going forward, but luckily NC (and honestly the south in general) has a really strong sense of community still and I know they will get help. My friend is doing well, got a few hours sleep and is back out with search and rescue. He knows about the funds now (he’s also a bitcoiner) and is finding the best place for them and I’ll update everyone when I get them delivered. ❤️❤️

Seriously, thank you guys so much 🙏🏻🫡 nostr:note1sgkm9zhplgn0808yszsdhgu9y6lkqygcwspqs30qalclwyr93shsfuly3n

That would require a fire hose 😂

yeah, or you can just zap yourself ..