If we had infrastructure for curating entries, allowing groups to vote on proposed additions and deletions and simple UIs for viewing the list of all items in a list then it would be easy to get rid of the NIPs repository.
It's sad that after so many years all we have are "feed" views. And GitHub continues to be a better platform for browsing and updating text lists of things. Notice that I'm not asking for much.
We would also have to get rid of the NIP numbers, but we could just say "the longform NIP", "the badges NIP" etc and it wouldn't be hard to know what were people talking about.
But if you're reading this and thinking about a complicated system with events being published with votes, proposals, lists of replaceable events with other lists inside or whatever absurdity, please stop. Just use a relay and normal events inside, add and delete. Custom write policies, standard Nostr read API.
#pyramid has a moderated subrelay that is probably 25% there already.
If you disagree please let me know.
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I approve of using NIP short names rather than always referring to them by numbers.
Just my 2 sats.
I'm building a nostr based EHR (actually two with different iterations). The ideal is getting other healthcare entities to naturally converge on a format standard without being decreed into one (theres already too little flexibility in most aspects of healthcare) . The format that more easily allows for privacy and portability of patient's own data would win.
Seems like there would still need to be a place to see what candidate implementations exist, such as staging relays, or something.
I think direct democracy here would be disastrous. To move into a better situation than the current developer oligarchy I think looks something like elected councils that represent the different kind of network participants (client developers, relay operators, regular users) and follow some constitution/rules of order. The cool part about the internet is that there can be multiple competing councils/institutions.
I think it's much more of a social problem than a technical one. Despite this I want all the governance tools we can think of on Nostr.
