Oddbean new post about login | logout NOSTR 's difficulties are your opportunities. You can't "Be Early" AND have everything work perfectly. If you want to grow an audience in NOSTR 's primordial ooze stage, you have to put up with things that others wont do.
Nigga, it's been 3 -4 years and the user experience still sucks
Isn't Nostr only a couple years old? Also, which ux are you referring to? 😊
it's light-years better than when I first started using it
Primal for example, looks sexy and nice. After 2-3 years of development, it still is buggy trash. Didn't they get VC funding? Ditto is the only decent Web UI client
I'm sorry ur not having fun ☹️
Some of these folks never had to suffer through computer adversity and it shows. Like getting a BSOD because of IRQ conflicts. Or in the early days of the Internet when Ping of Death was a thing. Or how most SMTP servers were open relays so you could get mail bombed. Or the mother of all issues -- downloading that gif (in the name of science of course) on your 1200 baud modem only for someone in your house to pick up the landline hours into it and not making it past the shoulders. Nooooooooooooooooooooo!
damn I'm glad I'm young the past sounds shitty 😉
The early days of the Internet was really the Wild West. In addition to being able to mail bomb, you could easily spoof because those open relays didn't do any sort of validation. During a prank war back in college, I may or may not have sent expulsion emails to people as the University President.
When I gave a Nostr presentation at my local meetup a year ago the way I phrased it at the time was: “We are so early it’s janky.” But a lot has changed and improved in the past year. Imagine what the possibilities are a year from now!
the trajectory of these clients is pretty wild
yes sir