Oddbean new post about login | logout well that's open source repos right? anyone can continue the work if the founders die. Thing is though, what happens when they start chasing you because Damus becomes a threat? Say what you will about continuation, but Damus is yours fundamentally, you guide it's development. Fucking with that fucks with the community. That's what i'm taking away from that dude's comment anyways.
Sir, these are nearly the same arguments made against #bitcoin since 2009. Quite literally speaking, both #nostr and bitcoin were specifically and painstakingly designed to not be censored. I say this as gently and respectfully as possible, these “what if” arguments are retarded.
did you read the OP note? I think you should re-read it again, then read what I said. Take any dev that currently builds on nostr out, and what, whose going to take up the reins, you the community? there's a reason @fiatjaf is @fiatjaf lol
So your new premise is now a hypothetical scenario where all capable nostr software developers are “disappeared” and therefore no single person is left use the protocol to build a new client or relaunch an old one? Again, this is retarded Sir. You are clearly trolling.
If William disappears because Nostr is so big and important you don't think there will be any other programmer in the world capable of forking it and continuing to develop it? And you don't think there will be a myriad of other independent apps people can switch over time?
The idea of open source protocols is that anyone can start freely building on it without anyones permission. If there are none left willing to continue Damus development, then another iOS client will appear with another dev coding it. It's hard to shutdown decentralized development, you have to chase every developer distributed across different countries/jurisdictions. Until people find Nostr useful, it will be very hard, almost impossible, to shutdown the network.