Oddbean new post about login | logout I have two open issues on the GitHub NIP repo. The first is a request to add a gitstuff event for the NIP repo, so that we can communicate about it on Nostr. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1472 The second is a suggestion for using NUDs (Nostr Unofficial Documents) effectively, to create a second-level of the NIP structure and reduce the administrative burden of the NIP repo, while retaining the repo as an expertly-curated standard spec set. That gives new devs an entry point to the protocol, containing a reference document for the wider landscape, without limiting active (and impatient 😅 ) devs to that repo. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1472 https://media.tenor.com/qooxLzKoKmEAAAAC/priyank-sharma-clap.gif
Please take the GitHub attack vector more seriously. CODE IS SPEECH THAT NOSTR SHOULD PROTECT. nostr:note1hmv0zw39y70pmc07a82lnpk4rpq6m46lem29wxf5rdqlnhw66uzqxlnk6d
Please set up at least one second gitserver, such as Song, Gitea, GitLab, etc. And make sure to issue a NIP-34 compatible git event. This protects your repo from censorship and gives users that have been banned from GitHub (or who want to avoid it in protest), a path for interacting with your repo. Please stop pressuring Nostriches to use GitHub. 🙏🏼
I would love to see the conversation moved to nostr but its already incredibly fragmented. I worry that adding another channel for this conversations is going to add to the fragmentation.
I would think that Nostr developers would very likely choose to use Nostr for communication related to Nostr development. Could this possibly reduce fragmentation over time?
I'd hope so for public conversation. It does seem like there is a lot of 'semi-private' ie large group conversations that still happen in telegram, signal, etc that I occasionally find out about. Maybe communities or MLS will bring that over to nostr too.
If they intentionally want it to be in secret or limited in scope then that's indeed a different issue that won't be changed by this. Nostr is at least the one thing everyone should have in common though, so it should help if they aren't intentionally making the chats exclusive. I'd say at a minimum that those who do communicate on Nostr owe nothing to those who don't since it naturally seems like the best fit for the official channel. You will never be able to force people to not use other channels. But at least having a Nostr option leaves the ball in their court instead of everyone else to use a number of comms outside of Nostr.
