joeruelle on Nostr: I'm pretty new here, but I sort of see a point to opposing edits, at least in a ...
I'm pretty new here, but I sort of see a point to opposing edits, at least in a town-square context.
Sam and Jane are sitting next to each other at a cafe, using separate clients. Both load up a post from a random person who went viral that morning (neither follows that person). Jane sees edit version 3 of the post, while Sam sees the original unedited post. Jane switches to the original, but she sees 5 replies on that original post, while Same sees 7 replies. (And of the 5 replies that Jane sees, Sam only sees 4)...
The missing replies issue is already a tricky one since (as I'm slowly coming to understand it) the inbox/outbox paradigm put forward to tackle it relies on clients operating as some sort of OPEC grouping.
Add to that this edits issue (every client a different solution) and it might be hard to scale a town-square use case for Nostr. Some users will feel like they're in the multiverse, always left to wonder how much of what they're seeing at first glance and in their universe reflects what other users are seeing at first glance and in their own respective universes.
I could be wrong, maybe it's less of an issue technically, will all resolve. Or maybe people just won't mind so much. Also that's only a town-square/global-view problem. I see you're working on community networks, that seems to me to be much closer to the breakout use case for nostr.
Sam and Jane are sitting next to each other at a cafe, using separate clients. Both load up a post from a random person who went viral that morning (neither follows that person). Jane sees edit version 3 of the post, while Sam sees the original unedited post. Jane switches to the original, but she sees 5 replies on that original post, while Same sees 7 replies. (And of the 5 replies that Jane sees, Sam only sees 4)...
The missing replies issue is already a tricky one since (as I'm slowly coming to understand it) the inbox/outbox paradigm put forward to tackle it relies on clients operating as some sort of OPEC grouping.
Add to that this edits issue (every client a different solution) and it might be hard to scale a town-square use case for Nostr. Some users will feel like they're in the multiverse, always left to wonder how much of what they're seeing at first glance and in their universe reflects what other users are seeing at first glance and in their own respective universes.
I could be wrong, maybe it's less of an issue technically, will all resolve. Or maybe people just won't mind so much. Also that's only a town-square/global-view problem. I see you're working on community networks, that seems to me to be much closer to the breakout use case for nostr.