it's incredible to me, and the response i got from these guys over my educated skepticism was borderline malicious trolling

they just don't get it that they are trying to get people to migrate from the best protocol in existence instead of extending it

microsoft proved the efficacy of this method of overwhelming an open protocol to take control of it, they called it "embrace, extend and extinguish"

when you have a dogged userbase for something and you want to eliminate this competition, you don't make a new thing that does much the same and hope that people will jump across

you use the thing people want to use, you make it better, and then you make it hard for the existing dev community to maintain their userbase thereafter.

that's why i just don't get how they don't seem to understand that their best option, as a small dev shop, to do something for actual user privacy and improving nostr's penetration into social media, would be to extend the protocol, even still

relays are the general method of transmitting, it's basically a web of POP servers, from an architecture perspective... adding some amount of fast converging consistency to the data that needs to be made consistent would be a good thing

i have this disagreement with shitcoin smart contract projects as well, they simply don't get it that you do eventual consistency on such highly heteregenous network topologies as social networks... data only needs to get to where it's asked for, it doesn't have to go everywhere and it doesn't have to be there all at once, best effort is ok

there's so much potential for making this happen in a big way but no, we have to make our own mostly replica of nostr protocol architecture and add our bit and then "promote" it by going to nostr and expecting a warm reception from the obviously skeptical, and technically advanced userbase of nostr