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171 sats \ 6 replies \ @kepford 17 Apr \ parent \ on: Mastodon Exit Interview (with Bluesky entrance interview) nostr
People will tell you that Jack was woke and that is why Twitter sucks. Other people will tell you Elon is a Nazi and that is why Twitter sucks. They are both wrong. You can't put the whole world in a room and expect people to not get very angry. There is far to much pressure to censor if you have the power to do it. Depending on the company structure and the leadership's backbone you will eventually buckle under the pressure.
May be an unpopular opinion but I have come to believe not everything scales and silos or communities have value. Rules are important. That's what is great about freedom. I can choose who to and not to associate with. Nostr is much closer to this than anything else.
The reason Nostr is closer is because the npub is at the center and each person holds that. Not a central entity. Sure, relays can and do censor. Most of us want censors to block spam (Spam can be very grey btw). But the fact that it is not hard to run a relay and this is a protocol, not an app means that decentralization is much easier to do.
No guarantees that Nostr will succeed. I think its kinda up to us. If people don't value these things then it will die. I'm not convince people get it at a large enough scale yet. If that is true, we will have the history of Nostr to show that it can be done if the masses wake up in the future.
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May be an unpopular opinion but I have come to believe not everything scales and silos or communities have value.
This. Communities have massive value and the good ones are diverse enough to not be an echo chamber. But not fully inclusive. Can't cater to everyone in discussions because we're all emotional beings in the end (except the gpt copy pasta people but eff these guys)
Nostr is much closer to this than anything else.
Because its a protocol. Its very young though. May need a
v2 at some point in the near future to get rid of inherent inefficiencies.No guarantees that Nostr will succeed. I think its kinda up to us.
It is. I wish I had time to build proper federation. I think this has been the best constructive criticism (to my knowledge @petertodd was among the first to mention it) that I've seen. Censorship resistance needs a means to talk relay-to-relay and not miss anything.
I don't really think it needs a NIP to truly implement it (though a well designed protocol could help if at some point optimization is needed to reduce load on relays.)
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It does need a v2, but I think it's either very close to (or already past) the point where a v2 can be implemented without both killing the V1 and dooming the V2 to failure. If there is still time I also don't know how a v2 (several breaking changes) gets done, besides someone influential simply forking it and successfully marketing their fork.
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Protocol handshakes to establish versions is the easiest way and has been used for ages; every https connection you start to read this message performs a handshake.
Software implementations may be strict or non-strict about versions supported. It's not hard; just needs someone with experience to champion it.
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I've seen some proxy implementations but that just sits at the front-end (at least that's what it did when I looked at it). The real power would IMHO be in having a community federated relay - think for example an SN relay that only tracks SN users' known npubs and the surrounding events, and stores these. Can serve back via a read only relay.
SN provides NIP-05 services too so we know which relays to look at for the content of each npub...
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