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pictures don’t explain anything!! 😣

I'm not sure I should write down these thoughts right now while I'm not sure about them, but if you are reading this apparently I did.

I think nostr may already be doomed for two reasons. And as a result of that, if I conclude as such, it would make sense to start working on a successor protocol. I've been taking some notes about what we should change if we started over, but that's the extent of it, I'm not working on a successor protocol. I'm only working on nostr. So don't misinterpret this note, which just represents some thoughts I've been having.

Reason one is the misaligned incentives of note copying. The incentives are to copy your notes to every relay you can, blast them out everywhere, to get more reach. That incentive doesn't go away until and unless all the clients do the outbox model. But they don't have an incentive to change, and there are people who don't give a fuck about fixing this and argue against fixing it and argue for note copying, and there is no way in a free society to make them care. So we can never fix this, and nostr will always be centralized in practice and never what it could have been. That means nostr is doomed and unfixable and we should make sure to start differently next time so this doesn't happen again.

Reason two is that the seed culture of nostr was far too monolithic: bitcoiners. What a culture develops into probably depends on how diverse its seed was. It's quite hard to get people onto nostr unless they are at least very bitcoin tolerant. Most people (yes, I think most) are put off by so much bitcoin promotion and related posts. Certainly people can follow anybody they want, and make their own independent cultures, perhaps even on a disjoint set of relays. But this isn't likely to happen due to the law of large numbers - there are far more ways for them to encounter and interact with the nest of bitcoiners then to not encounter and interact with them.

These are thoughts I'm entirely unsure about. Maybe I'm wrong in both cases. These are my worries.

thanks for your worries 🙏🏽

nostr can feel like a never ending loop of bitcoin/sovereignty related content, but isn’t it so cool we’re all here for the same values?

i think proper community outreach helps with discovering other types of content.

it really, reallyy, helps to browse universe for pages to follow. just push through the weird stuff and mute lol.

for your first reason, i’m not a dev, so i can’t tell you much about helping w the relay thing, but it’s important to put trust that these tools are being built.

we just need to support our devs, and inspire more to help open this protocol to what it will be!

🤙🏽

what time is it where you are? i’m about to say goodnight 🛌

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yes

man booties > man boobies

needed this after a couple of cries nostr:note10rew6guya8ydjk7cjlcyy3pnc4f62g4tjz9rpw0fcz5rdyvsqktstj3n6v

hmm, i get it. sometimes i check my posture on the windows i pass by to make sure its good 😭

should’ves, could’ves, would’ves don’t exist, you’re focusing on it now and mastering it 😼

it took me about a year to normalize not slouching, BUT my neck posture is still not its best, that’s what i struggle w the most 😣 especially mewing, i hate thinking about my tongue placement 😵‍💫

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literally hahaha