Laeserin (Silberengel) @Laeserin - 1mo
Unpopular opinion: Treating Nostr as a collection of "Nostr" clients that talk to each other, rather than a communication protocol that allows any clients to talk to each other, is holding back adoption because you are trying to force users to immediately change interfaces and workflows, instead of just co-opting the data transfers on the backend. If you get people moving their data over Nostr, then you can create new Nostr-native clients to handle that data in some novel way, to add value. Don't put the cart before the horse. Get the data first. Integrate, then build. #devs #Nostr
If you look at what Matrix and Fediverse do, they integrate everywhere they can. They're ubiquitous.
Nostr suffers from a chronic case of Not-invented-here syndrome (NIH).
Like, why not generate Twitter posts from Nostr kind 01 notes? Substack articles from long-form?
There are no competitor networks. Everyone is using HTTP.
Those "social networks" are human/app networks, not technological networks. Usually just a database, front-end, and a REST API sending json.
Not most of these FOSS developers. They get money without users because of the grants. The devs are going where the money is and the people holding the money eschew integrations. They're fanatics. They only want other fanatics.
That's why they insist everyone shut down their Twitter accounts, rather than integrating and reversing the origin of the posts, so that Twitter feeds us a steady stream of users, who have to come here to discuss with the author, because the author now hangs out here. We should be having a steady leak of users onto the protocol from apps those users actually like. You shouldn't have to wait until someone quits an app, or force them to straddle two interfaces. Just have them move their origin and their audience will wander over, to get closer.
Wordpress. Also October CMS.
Man... Wordpress is like half of Internet pages. Imagine them all with zaps Nostr comments.
We run an October CMS site, but I've had Wordpress, before. Lots of PHP and MySQL, and that's more my scene.