Good thread on some of the pain experienced by new Nostr devs, and also a good response of why things are the way they are. TLDR; Loose governance is not very meritocratic, and stronger governance is generally not either πŸ™ƒ Personally I’d love to see (maybe found?) a NIP consortium/collective/co-op some day, but I don’t think it’s time yet. View quoted note β†’
I had a great time at DWeb camp last week as always. I sat on an "Open Social Web" panel as the Nostr representative and I think what I had to say about Nostr was generally well-received alongside Bluesky and Mastodon. People were mostly drawn to the loose governance and the scrappy "good enough" approach to protocol design. But, like last year, it still feels like the energy folks have for "social media" as we typically think of it has been completely sucked out of the room. Few people are interested in putting more energy into some public virtue-signaling town square. I think Nostr has an advantage over Mastodon in Bluesky in this area because it really does have the most non-microblogging experiments going on, and the protocol is the friendliest to encrypted private spaces.
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