They come across as bitter, defensive, and arrogant. If they want people to try or use their product, they should get someone who knows how to talk to people to make announcements, and answer questions.
Yes, but also I think they're excellent marketers. If I were to read it cynically I'd say they're doing the crypto play — siphoning energy and talent away from a truly open protocol to a branded version of the same thing.
I think that's circumstantial, not intentional. And their abrasiveness is going to encourage people to take an ideological stand against them. It feels very counterproductive to me.
Yes, I agree, I think Carvalho is well-intentioned.
I've seen devs get defensive and hostile before when their work is criticized. I think it's a natural impulse when you feel like something you've put your time and energy into is being attacked. But you've got to find a way to keep your game face on so you done end up alienating the people you want to accept your work.
btcerrorlog is fractious and thin-skinned. Only a matter of time before the arguments pick up.
I haven't looked at the tech stack. Is it web5? They have some very interesting solutions for scalability and key rotation. Nostr has the network effect. I think the best future is for nostr to adopt some of the web5 tech. In some cases it would be a backwards incompatible change, essentially a hard fork.
But you can't bully people into a hard fork. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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