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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 4h \ on: What creative ideas have you been rambling on? Design
Converging nostr as transport and nostr as identity together in shockwallet, we've kept social out of the equation while the transport-level protocols were iterated upon, but now the next frontier is platformization, which relies heavily on identity.
This touches a lot of stuff of course:
- Identity implies hooks into the broader network, necessitating things like an ingestor and indexers with a human readable name registry that scales
- Bridging the gap for normies whom expect to simply use an email or share identity within organization context creeps the scope substantially, ex: Sanctum.
- Conventional cloud services like CDN ex: Lightning.Video
- An integrated platform opens the doors to more demanding users, users that require traditional UX and automation that glues non-traditional components together seamlessly
This all must be done in a way that respects the constraint of self-custody and decentralization that distinguish it from yesterdays platforms. It's constrained by unique network effects that must be leveraged to bootstrap the utility. It's constrained by legacy tech stacks that are a gatekeeper to distribution. It's constrained by the fact that many ideas must be conveyed as one idea.
"Art lives on constraints and dies of freedom."