Boa noite Will. 

 I want a relay where every note is just a file on disk, in a folder by pubkey. And all operations are done by bash scripts with awk, sed, grep, jq and websocat. 

 Nah, file system doesn’t fit. Nostr is a new protocol sitting alongside email and HTTP, starting with genuinely different principles.

I’d pragmatically define a FS as anything you could write a sane FUSE for 

 This is an answer you give to a dev and a dev only. 

Share this with anyone else and they will never talk to you again. 😅 

 ^this

It is nowhere near layman friendly 

 Negative, devs are a bunch of dense autists that will reeeee over the term file system instead of reading what is actually being said. 

 I was thinking the same, haha 

 > Complexity in integrating the protocol into other systems results in centralization of development. The consequence is a limited offer in software resulting in a no longer really open standard that is in the hands of those who facilitate the tools used to speak the protocol.

I have heard this before... 

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 If I don't answer "nostr is social media but with pay button next to like button", barely anyone will listen to me XD 

 It's a cool protocol, and decentralization is an important tool to have available - for certain business models, for anonymity/security/privacy, etc. Nostr makes developing resilient, censorship resistant kinds of applications and services so much easier than the current web. But for most *users* the underlying protocol is secondary to the service offering. Is there a Nostr equivalent of Fiverr? Amazon? EBay?

Maybe. But the easy way for centralized web platforms (Fiverr/Ebay/Amazon) to compete against decentralized Nostr services right now woukd be to simply accept BTC as payment. Likewise zaps, Lightning & BTC seem to be the main drivers of Nostr user adoption for the time being just as, once upon a time, "graphic images" (ahem) drove HTTP adoption.

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