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107 sats \ 8 replies \ @BlokchainB 15h \ on: Nostr Unpopular Opinions nostr
This post feels more like sour grapes than an honest critique. Like he never mentions Nostr Wallet Connect! He’s viewing everything from social media lense. With growth expectations of current social media sites/platforms.
Also monetizing protocols are extremely hard. SN is trying to monetize on LN so far Sveski might call this site a failure because it hasn’t captured the growth/network effect of Reddit or hacker news when these platforms been operating for decades.
I understand his frustration but I think this piece is misguided coming off a failed venture. When it was first announced made no sense to me after burning cash on a idea that died its only natural to write something like this.
The more I observe Nostr, the more I think it was a mistake to make Twitter clones the first services to launch.
It's an identity and messaging protocol, but positioning as a competitor to a social network which was always a distant third was foolish.
At heart, it competes with some combination of FIDO/Passkeys/PGP/RSS/Discord/Signal... a super messy milkshake with a ton of potential for someone who can figure out the mix.
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Yeah I agree.
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Like he never mentions Nostr Wallet Connect!
NWC is such a little piece of nostr, it’s not relevant when talking about nostr in general imo.
NWC also has its own issues like no negotiation of permissions between app and wallet.
Nostr is immature (especially regarding key management) but is it really because we’re early?
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You mean discussing the social media application of nostr sure I agree but nostr overall.
All protocols have issues TCP/IP, Bitcoin. Pick one you can find tons of unsolved issues
I agree the key management is terrible. But maybe it gets better in the years to come. It’s pretty amazing it’s gotten this far. The biggest driver of development resources came from Jack Dorsey and that was only $5M bucks
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