Yeah, it's been sad seeing that happen here, but I think it's because they compare themselves with stuff like X or Instagram, rather than focusing on our own project landscape. In their own minds, they're the solution, not the problem.
I don't want Nostr to end up another Matrix or BlueSky, where there is theoretically lots of different apps and servers, but effectively only one of each because so much money was poured into it that it consumed the network and began dictating conditions.
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Focus on individual health, like optimizing diet with animal fats, and Nostr will thrive.
I think the good news is that the foundation is right. Nostr is so modular and based on simple cryptographic primitives with such little consensus that the most decentralized and free version should always exist.
At this point it seems inevitable that true decentralization and freedom comes at a cost that most folks won’t accept. My biggest hope is that we can at least make the decentralized and free options popular enough that the bigger, convenient platforms are effectively forced to be interoperable. The fun part is figuring out what levers we have to do that… maximizing numbers is a big part, but not the whole story - if the content is better or more diverse then other networks will be forced to adopt.
Well, they show up in my threads and act up because they know that content leads, on social media.
They've already purchased most of the people with large npubs, but some of us cannot be bought and will continue to push back.
