Nostr is a step towards the finished version of the web, bringing it back to its decentralized roots. Nostr is not that new (taproot aside) pretty much everything that is done on nostr could have been done 10 years before. What's new is that people want it and have noticed it.
But nostr is not the finished version of the web. The finished version of the web will include nostr, and what exists today, but also have some key features:
- innovation will be 100% permissionles. No need to go to the NIPs, a new project will be as simple as starting a website
- massively scalable full data model, that includes text strings (nostr) and JSON (developer favourite) with powerful databases
- native paytments though lightning, zaps, and on chain, including all layer 2 and uxto solutions
- sub 100ms response and paint times so that everything looks fast and instant
- every person can have a piece of the web, their own storage, their own idea, their own apps, maybe a section in a game, a shared space with friends, private messages -- this will not require new projects or tech, just what exists
-- humans and machines working together, virtual assistants to help people and protect that, find them the best bargains, show them what is safe, automate their lives, in control of the user, not a company
-- removal or control of the algorithm, you pick what influences you, according to your tastes, you are not bombarded with advertising
We have a chance to get to this world. Even if we dont make it all the way, part of it might be enough ...
Nostr is not that scalable. As you seen with the spam, relays were designed poorly.
Nostr is literally websockets and json, things that make up the web already.
Relays are just databases, things that make up applications already.
Just because you don't know how to scale them doesn't make them not scalable, and as far as I know there's only one developer actually working on scaling it @Doug Hoyte
Scale will come quickly ones its made a priority.
Not quite, no. Relays relay, the clue is in the name. The content is a text string. Only thing that scales rn, is #ditto. That's the path.
Relays are no different than postgres in a traditional stack, they "relay" data across time in (conjunction with middleware)
Ditto is right because it introduces proper middleware rather than clients speaking equivalent to SQL directly, and relegates the relay back to its core database functionality.
The mastodon influence im not a fan of, but it's directionally correct to have application middleware between clients and the database (relay)
and when all that happens - #nostr shall become one super large corporation 😁 .. and super boring ..
it is fun cuz it is so broken .. humans find fun is in fixing trivial things .. finished products are for the #sheep
This sounds wonderful. I believe that this is all achievable. If we look how far we've come over the last two decades, its becoming easier and easier to host our own technology stack as these software applications improve and as the communication layers get more robust. Keep building.
Very much protectionism, liars and shitcoins in this picture
It's sounds wishful thinking
Sounds like it, but I use pretty much this system already. Anyone can build such a system, we have the tools all there now. It's very good. It would be nice for it to reach a wider audience, when they are ready.
Absolutely… this is the way
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