SPOE # 18 – be careful everyone…

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Yes, many of us do. And ultimately it’s going to be what we all make of it…

Hello Jonathan, and welcome. Look forward to seeing more of your work

Enjoying the music choices this evening… thanks

I’m pretty sure I couldn’t teach you anything, sir. And wouldn’t presume to try even if I thought I could :)

I really do understand that.

And for everyone else, for whom it just signals that there’s a joke they’re weren’t in on ?

Build and scale a future on ‘trust me, it was great, you should have been there…’ ?

I’m not proposing a nostr brand. I‘m proposing, and think we really need, a protocol-wide profile/content share icon - that doesn’t assert/undermine particular client identities.

I am very much just a user here. And enjoyment of the ‘nostrich’ is absolutely as valid a judgement call in this as any other. Although it’s worth remembering how much its ‘sense’ relies on being a pictographic reminder of a shared joke amongst some, that others didn’t and won’t get…

You seem to be asking for a lot to be communicated by such a little button. Beyond an attempt to be distinctive, attractive and recognisable, I’d argue that it can’t embody anything more than its own form and function. Personal readings that evolve through its use are going to be about association, and about the reader more than the read. But they can hopefully be kept open enough to leave space for each user to form their own associative connections between the sign and the content and possibilities they use it to link with.

If I’m honest, the more I live with this one the stronger and more useful it feels. But my offer is very much just that. And part of the motivation for this particular proposal was simply to try to shift and open up the frame of the conversation a little.

I absolutely appreciate that you’re looking for something this isn’t doing for you. But in response to these particular misgivings: I’m not sure share icons are ever used out of context, or even alone, in that way….

But to offer another perspective for a moment: if it were to become established, it might be precisely that open familiarity and adaptability that could be strikingly distinct and useful… perhaps even as a [ ] text emoji link if necessary…

I was trying to make that open undefined space the icon, more of an invitation and open possibility than a naming… Again, may just be me, but filling it and making it so explicit sort of kills it for me…

Might be just me, but personally that makes me like the assertion of the open unfilled brackets even more…

Go do your worst/best….

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I share feelings that the protocal itself doesn’t need branding, any more than the web itself does – but I’ve still been hoping we might at least manage an agreed share icon, that can start to embed and establish a nostr link identity

That was always going to be a conversation that could only develop through concrete proposals, so I’m dropping this one into the mix. To offer a case for something favouring the power of confident understatement – simple enough to feel self-evident, that might perhaps manage to be distinctive yet open enough to be simply iconic in the practical sense…

Offered In the hope that it might at least provoke some counter proposal, that doesn’t impose a particular colour case, or insist on trying to make some rendering of an ostrich even readable at favicon scale !!

All thoughts welcome, as always….

Have a good week #nostr nostr:note1ydu56sjnrrr9zu7x3vu9ntprdrwdv85843a32nm2yt9zxwccspzqv83ete

A bit of blue sky thinking today…

Hello, welcome

Will try not to think about that right now, as the night and quiet closes in here. But have a good day there…