I'm a Native Californian, always been a fan of innovation, freedom and support libertarian, small government, free enterprise small business.
If you can't get on board with that, too bad. Cali was a republican state way back decades ago before it before it became a one party woke tard.
I don't support communism or woke, or entitlements. There are big communist counties if you want that. Go there, frenemy.
do people understand how historical the Trump on Rogan podcast is?
its a big marker - change of the times. Presidents or candidates never went on a podcast in the past for their campaigns.
Problem with Keet is the frontend is still not Open Source after 3 years. I am grinding on this hard because I was an early beta tester.
Can't really see the deets, unless you want decompile all of that javascript.
What are they hiding and why so long???
My guess is either they want a moat or they are insecure about other devs coming in for a look and outperforming them in a short time.
totally sus.
Maybe this note will get them to open it up.
#Pubky is Slashtags rebranded. Rebranding is never a good sign. Its the same group as the Keet guys. Fundamentally they are struggling with traction, their protocol is obtuse and difficult to build on.
I get that having a bittorrent style DHT might be useful but the latency and discoverability issue is not gonna compete with nostr websockets. And there is a solid reason why SimpleX is using websockets and unidirectional pipelines for their chat servers. It just *Works* better. Not perfect p2p networks but for the purpose of social connectivity you gotta cut some edges off.
Love the idea, but also felt like I wasted enough time looking at Keet/Kademila/Hypercore rebranded twice to Pear. Great marketing but underlying adoption will not happen at Nostr Speed.
Nostr has its problems but its strength is that weekend warriors can contribute and for a scrappy distributed protocol this is what you want. Not $10 million dollar per VC app companies that refuse to hire american citizens and don't really welcome opensource part time contributors.
You are gonna need all the hands you can get to build something anti-big tech and by removing as many complexity barriers as possible you can achieve it with max leverage, less labor and less time to generate the network effect for survival.
#Nostr Will Survive. There are enough builders who don't need a PHD to make it work. That's the #1 key factor here.
FWIW - I tried to attend a Kademila conference at Stanford but they would not let me into their "closed door" meeting because I was not part of academia anymore.
Anytime you have a "Closed door" group working on decentralized public good protocols, its really sus and contradictory.
#Pubky is Slashtags rebranded. Rebranding is never a good sign. Its the same group as the Keet guys. Fundamentally they are struggling with traction, their protocol is obtuse and difficult to build on.
I get that having a bittorrent style DHT might be useful but the latency and discoverability issue is not gonna compete with nostr websockets. And there is a solid reason why SimpleX is using websockets and unidirectional pipelines for their chat servers. It just *Works* better. Not perfect p2p networks but for the purpose of social connectivity you gotta cut some edges off.
Love the idea, but also felt like I wasted enough time looking at Keet/Kademila/Hypercore rebranded twice to Pear. Great marketing but underlying adoption will not happen at Nostr Speed.
Nostr has its problems but its strength is that weekend warriors can contribute and for a scrappy distributed protocol this is what you want. Not $10 million dollar per VC app companies that refuse to hire american citizens and don't really welcome opensource part time contributors.
You are gonna need all the hands you can get to build something anti-big tech and by removing as many complexity barriers as possible you can achieve it with max leverage, less labor and less time to generate the network effect for survival.
#Nostr Will Survive. There are enough builders who don't need a PHD to make it work. That's the #1 key factor here.
problem with Keet is the front is still not Open Source after 3 years. I am grinding on this hard because i was an early beta tester.
DHTs can also be a central point of failure but can't even see the deets of how Keet is implemented on the front, unless you want decompile all of that javascript. I don't know what they are hiding and why so long.
Often people don't realize that they are a 'Frog in a Well'; there is a big world out beyond a small piece of sky.
You can make choices that aren't on the menu, you know?
Thinking outside the box - Now That's actual freedom. :D
VCs destroy a lot of what could have been great companies.
but that aside, lets edit the text to reflect the real reality:
"Doctorow also mentions two principles to combat platform enshittification. Platforms should be interoperable, allowing users to switch to a different provider. Users should also have the ability to control the content they see, and not be dependent on an opaque algorithm owned by the platform "
As both of these principles are deeply embedded in the design or NOSTR, it is indeed good enough to stave off enshittification.
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Umm.... okay here i have to disagree with you. I would not spend half as much time on nostr if it weren't for the doors that open and limitless possibilities with lightning
people in these hyperinflationary countries always stash a lot of USD cash or buy a load of inventory to offset the fiat blowup. its the only way to survive.
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