Oddbean new post about login | logout We're not really early at all, nostr is 1/8th the age of the web. These things are not happening for a reason. Developers are getting blocked, and it's usually the guy at the top with another agenda. All the competition is marching ahead with inferior experiences. NIP centralization is holding nostr back alot. This stuff should have all been there years ago. Something needs to kickstart innovation, because the project is set up badly compared to other OSS peers. Things have slowed down alot, but hopefully something can bring back innovation. Remember when the nostr report reported several new projects a day? We dont have that any more. A change is needed.
your math checks, but the experience on nostr feels about the same as the first 4 years of the web. while the web was technically invented in 1989 we didn’t even get Mosaic’s (Netscape) initial release until 1993. It was very slow going at the start. Damus/Primal feel like Netscape quality browsers to me, but public messaging is not as underserved as web browsing was back then so history doesn’t exactly repeat. I think there’s something yet undiscovered that will feel really different and will demonstrate the power of nostr. I suspect it involves zaps and algorithms.
the 89 proposal was shelved for a full year, didnt start till the 90s on chain is needed, a socially aware free market, but nostr is too centralized right now in the NIPs
Note: Tim Berners-Lee, CERN March 1989, May 1990 It sat on a shelf for 14 months. This is quite similar to the best financial proposals not making it in nostr, right now. It's incredibly easy in centralized decision making to shut things down, or kick them into the long grass. The reason is that for any OSS project to make it, everything has to go right, so 99% fail. One thing going wrong, is enough to derail something, and that happens over and over in nostr rn. Luckily the web made it, we take it for granted today, but it was a chance meeting at a party 14 months later that allowed the project to live, "what happened to that information management proposal of yours?" -- "It's still waiting for approval" -- Send it again. Tim made a point of writing both dates on it! The first web site and ANN was in fact 33 years ago in late1991. https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html