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Magister Michael Dilger M.Sc. | 5 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +6 
 Popularity is sometimes a proxy for quality. In a busy world manytimes we just turn to the popular choice thinking it is probably popular because it is the best.

None of us are immune. I probably put too much weight on this metric when choosing rust libraries to rely on.

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ede3d957 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Also true for NGU Bitcoin vs Monero.

Despite cypherpunk communities being roughly same size.
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ede3d957 | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I mean it's not even clear they are two communities as there is 80% overlap.
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makeasnek | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Likewise, are #nostr devs and the Bitcoin community ignoring #freenet, #i2p, and existing #P2P technology that is even more decentralized than nostr is? Nostr is great, I love the zapping ability, but zapping ability could be added to these networks. I hope these networks talk to each other some day (for example, nostr for social graph and text, send media content to freenet for hosting/bandwidth), but I see a lot of recreating the wheel going on.