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 ATTENTION ALL NOSTR DEVELOPERS:

All of your other priorites are herby on the back burner. This takes priority for you now. 

Yes I am speaking directly to you...

It is time to be a Nostr hero.

If you dont work together to figure out how to create a safeguard against spammers for the NOSTR protocol. That are actively targeting every conversation on the entire relay network 24/7/365 at once (Reply Guy). Then NOSTR does not have much longer to live. No amount of zaps is ever going to bring it back to life. 

No one has the right to instantly barge in on every conversation taking place in public. Asking everyone, or any developer to manually block verified all network wide spammers constantly. Is truly unacceptable from a longterm viability, privacy, and security standpoint. It is a job no one will want to do.

More spammers will soon figure this dudes trick out. Then the network will overwhelmingly  become flooded with everlasting waves of spam. Containing far more malicious and vile content that will destroys the protocol within months from bad PR. Not to mention severely intensify the shitty experience we are now having to suffer through for all public Nostr  conversations. 

This is absolutely NOT a call for censorship of an individuals right to freedom of speech. This is a continued malicious attack on the Nostr protocol network wide. Akin to the Nostr protocol itself being hijacked. 

No one should have near godlike powers of conversational intrusion across the entire Nostr network at once. This Is beyond a brutal invasion of everyone's right to freedom, privacy, and security on Nostr. 

We need to fix this. Buckle down. Get to work. Figure this shit out now. I believe in you. 

Now it is time for you to believe in yourself.

Save the Nostr protocol. Boost if you arent a developer, but you agree with me.

#SaveNostr 
 The main issue with developers, is lack of focus on the customers’/users’ needs. 
 It is significantly more complicated than that.

It is challenging to find a balance between what you want to provide, what can realistically be done, is it affordable, are the development  resources available , and does it benefit a small group of users vs the majority, and is it a need that absolutely must be satisfied now?

Like many things in life it is challenging. Setting priorities and reaching your goals. Navigating through all of them successfully is a rare minor miracle for anyone. Especially in a world full of people with a constant need for instant gratification.

Help them if you can financially, or whatever value you feel they deserve that you can give. Try to empathize more with that their profession has a lot of moving parts. Sometimes shit doesnt work, or it breaks down. That is the nature of technologies old and new. They dont always get things right Just like the rest of us too. 
 Preaching to the choir.