Observing and pondering Nostr is a constant back and forth in my mind between attempts at conceptualization and wondering if i am just fooling myself as a cope.
Nostr very much resembles an eco-system, both in its ultimate potential with a large amount of different and overlapping/interconnected usecases, but then in turn perhaps in how it has to establish itself through pioneer species.
In that sense microblogging is like grass, that retains and prepares the soil for the herbs and the innitial bugs, progressing slowely towards shrubs, the first trees, critters etc. To at some point become a full fledged forrest.
With an already established Internet that now spans the globe, the pollen get scattered globally as well. Succession happens faster in some locations than others, but it seems the innitial patches of grass are touching all corners of the earth.
Its fragile in these early stages, and pioneering attempts in certain places might fail innitially, and will have to be tried again later; at the same time a lot of the 'action' actually occurs in the soil, and is hidden from view, its fruits only become appearent much later.
But perhaps most importantly in this analogy, is the biodiversity. It is not a monoculture, we have so many different apps, in the category of 'grass' alone we have a pretty long list of viable species, and the many seeds of the many different type of plants and trees are already in the ground, waiting for their time to succesfully germinate. Most likely won't, but the fact they are there to begin with is significant in and off itself.
Steady lads, we will let a 1000 flowers bloomscroll
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