Oddbean new post about login | logout What will be the first #Nostr war? Every great protocol/standard seems to have one, usually after it’s initial cycle - Linux, TCP/IP, #Bitcoin, AC/DC - it’s like a rite of passage.
Probably DMs as stated. Then once sides are chosen, someone will say fuck it and go full nip-95 (as mentioned).
Does the Bluesky people calling everyone here Nazis count?
Does that count though? Feels way too early for this to be the war that will be remembered. There were tons of other more minor disagreements that came before the Blocksize War. But none of them caused a deep and permanent rift in the community itself. None forked the protocol to see an eventual winner.
There were some pretty significant battles and diverging standards with the UNIX kernel back in the 80s, but Linux has seen a number of pretty contentious periods of its history. Then the OSI standards war throughout the 80s and 90s that eventually led to the dominance of TCP/IP for various reasons.