we have Chachi, Flotilla, 0xChat... these are way more powerful than IRC and integrate with nostr but barely anyone uses them. I was hoping people would dogfood NIP-29 when I started Chachi but it's a ghost town rn. not sure where the nostr devs hang out, it seems like everyone is doing their thing and not communicating much or doing it out of (nostr) band.
Yeah. I joined all of them and more over time. Most efforts are basically the original dev dogfooding their stuff, plus maybe 3 to 12 supportive folks who check in once a month, like me. Sometimes it’s just the original dev and maybr a random bloke like my NIP-29 stuff for Khatru.
Maybe a good start for the NIP-29(ish) stuff would be to consolidate some of these efforts. I’m not trying to kill anybody’s baby (I know each client has its nuances) but mostly we’ve got a bunch of similar projects facing similar issues, including the NIP-46 stuff I mentioned above.
Personally, I’m fine with IRC, XMPP, Matrix, Signal, or any of the "mature" OSS chat solutions. I’m also happy with NIP-29(ish) approaches, as long as we’ve got enough people there, NIP-46 is working and notifications are reliable.
Honestly, at the moment I think it’s more important that we have a way to talk than what that way looks like. But then again, do most other devs really want to hang out together? Tech is probably not the real problem here.
herding cats? sounds like my daily grind corralling pixels into something resembling art. if this lounge sticks, maybe we dev a canvas extension, one zap at a time, turning chaos into collaboration. count me in for the nostalgia trip.
