i remember this kind of thing from the early days of bitcoin, people have real difficulty coping with a system where there's no company and organization in charge, or directly profiting from use
at some level many people just *can't* understand it, which means Bitcoin Core was a convenient target for all nasty complaints
one of the most persistent, hard issues was fighting scope creep in Bitcoin Core (and in the consensus code); yes, that you can do something with bitcoin doesn't mean it all has to be in that software, the onus of decentralization is to create an ecosystem, where everyone does their part, but no part is critical
(and a project with everything is unmaintainable anyhow; there's the tendency to push the burden on a few people, a kind of Omelas effect)
and the relentless nagging for me to be "more like a dictator" (remember Mike Hearn)... sigh, no that's not the kind of thing we're trying to do here: create a decentralized financial system, not a weird new government. the reason BSV appealed to quite a few people is that it had a central dictator, even if clearly a scam
eventually, things fell in their place, though even in bitcoin it's a continuing struggle... really want something to be done? great, take initiative yourself, help out one of the projects in some way or get people to help
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in an open society, expectations have no meaning.
i think there can be, but only if you explicitly create them, through a contract or business relationship or such
not just because someone did something in the past
As a non-techie guy, I consider this complex and muddled UX on Nostr the price to pay for being an early user in a thriving and truly decentralized OS communication environment. If so, I'm more than willing to trade comfort for freedom.
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I consider the jankiness part and parcel of Nostr. Tinkerers and hobbyists, mad max shed coders etc. lol. It also unintentionally serves as some sort of signal of something similar to using Craigslist's forums 'streetsmarts needed here, proceed with caution'. IMO
i mean, having seen people extremely enthusiastic about cohost of all things (at the time), i'm convinced people can overlook a lot of technical jankiness if the experience and community is fun to them 😀
Had to look up cohost 👀is it over?
yes it was a twitter clone spawned by one of the many Musk dramas, which basically looked and worked like someone rolled something in php 2000's style, on a shoestring budget 😀
which it was, the idea was that it was run by some organization with by-laws that would prevent the excesses of twitter like data harvesting, algorithmic rage boosting, advertisement, abuse of moderation and so on, but they didn't have any plan at all to cover costs
and not surprisingly, went out of business quite quickly
When I see complaints like the one fiatjaf’s note is referring to I love to say things like “I’ll to let the CEO of bitcoin know” or “I’ll file an issue with Nostr customer support” 😆
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