110 sats \ 7 replies \ @m00ninite 1 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Legitimate criticisms of Nostr nostr
Re: messages getting lost in time.. Can we really expect that every message posted to nostr will be stored by somebody forever? Doesn't seem realistic. In theory torrents also last forever thanks to the decentralized nature, but in practice they die pretty fast.
Happy to be corrected on this. I'm still learning about nostr myself.
Edit: think I may have misunderstood what "lost in time" meant in this context, but my point about data permanence stands.
If he's talking about data permanence, they are probabilistically lost not certainly lost, ie they could be lost in time and if you were to store them yourself they wouldn't need be lost at all.
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Probabilistically lost is pretty much as bad as certainly lost if you're trying to store anything important. That demo that popped up storing a decentralized password manager comes to mind.
I think there's a lot of space for using nostr as a communications protocol for short-lived stuff, but I still have a lot of questionmarks about Twitter-like implementations where data can be impermanent
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I still have a lot of questionmarks about Twitter-like implementations where data can be impermanent
data is impermanent on twitter too
if you don't self-host whatever you find important, don't expect someone else to host it for you
unless they find it important too they will eventually delete it (e.g. when they stop profiting from it)
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I don't disagree.
It's early though. I suspect some high probability of permanence can be achieved with incentives eventually.
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I hope so. The possibilities of nostr dramatically rise with the promise of permanence. Use cases far beyond simple social media stuff.
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That's what's kind of cool about open protocol development. Up only™️ until people lose interest or hit a serious road block. Nostr is wildly underutilizing bitcoin imo but they aren't ready to accept the tradeoffs of that yet I don't think ... they need to hit some road blocks first.
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