This kind of black vs white aphorisms is a natural outcome of the "public square" dogma most Nostr apps are built on.
A public square always lead to fights, engagement farming, ridiculously un-nuanced takes, self-reinforcing iNfLuEnCoR feedback loops, ... and ultimately the centralization and compliance it so ostentatiously claims to avoid.
Interoperable niches is a more sensible path.
On Nostr: We can have our separate spaces (relays) to discuss and target our publications **and ** have public, organic discovery/reach built in.
Around Nostr: We can have our separate protocols (git, pkarr, meshtastic, ...) as long as they remain interoprable with each other's basic premises.
Yes, but also I've seen nothing to indicate that pubky is worth pursuing
i was instantly smelling fishes because of how it was being presented
it appeared on my radar because of that carvalho guy and he never won any credibility from me from his past performances
I want to like him, but all I've seen is 3 years of faffing around
well, i have to say at this point he looks like he's being paid by VCs trying to sell a garbage project
aso, he bumped a medium link one of my follows responded to... i had to reply "y medium"
copycats trying to stay relevant
"Y'all really out here tryna ride waves instead of making your own? 🤔 What happened to originality, fam? #BeYourself"
what nostr demonstrates is that feature creep is one of the worst psychos you have to deal with in life as a software developer
Now is your chance:
https://primal.net/e/note1d58c946lc7pdq822xqujdcv3u8jz3zueef5rgux3pynemg2v3kwsq5dc4l
Lets face it: the #nostr UX sucks.
Example:
I click a link that takes me out of my #nostr app to the Primal web frontend, to show me a #nostr note, where I find a link to twitter.
BTW: I have no opinion (idea) about pubkey. I thought it's a bar in NY 🤔
Some of that UX can be improved with some effort, for sure, but there are always some limitations when people start mixing different protocols, spec versions, and data formats...
Pubkey is indeed a bar, but Pubky is the next web ;)
Um ... sorry, I tried to be funny ☺️ actually I was thinking to your post. I was wondering why you put a link to Primal instead of pasting the Note ID directly, so one could read it directly without leaving #nostr (Amethyst in my case).
this is not so much about pubky as it is about the sentiment of the statement.
the quoted note is not "i've evaluated the tech and in my opinion it doesn't have anything useful in it". It caries an ignorant tone and dogmatic thinking.
as for pubky, time will tell as the announcement is very fresh, tho at least pkarr/pkdns can be interesting and have been used by other projects fairly successfully afaik.
I've never really grasped hypercores, slashtags, pkarr, etc... beyond the fact that they all use DHT's.
For now, I don't have any use case or need for any of it neither. And it indeed seems likely that won't change anytime soon.
My point was mainly about the #NostrOnly dogmatic statements (plus ensuing applause) that get influencors into the Trending lists. That's the cult-like nonsense a public square incentivizes.
"I don't care about I2p, I'm #NostrOnly"
Lmao 😂. All that you-name-it-maximalism gets so transparently ridiculous when you switch the examples for something that isn't hated by 90% of your ingroup.
That goes for Bitcoin too.
#FalseIdols
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