pjv on Nostr: I think this is right. Unless someone comes up with some magic - which I don't rule ...
I think this is right. Unless someone comes up with some magic - which I don't rule out - it's a trade off.
I think a lot of people are not going to be satisfied with anything other than a Twitter clone. And I really think that failing the magic the only way to produce a performant Twitter clone is via some version of a big db controlled by a single entity.
Personally, for me, censorship resistance is way more important than all kinds of things that Twitter has that I don't care about so for me that trade-off is easy to make.
Since I got involved with nostr I've been ranting against doing things that Twitter does that I think are impossible to do (properly) in a meaningfully decentralized protocol. Like counting likes and followers. I mean, of course you can count them as long as you are satisfied with a count that is always wrong and sometimes way wrong and totally wastes resources to compile.
Personally, I'm here to read what certain people have to say. I don't give the slightest shit how many people follow them or how many people like what they say. But what I want from a system like this is different from what others want. I won't ever need to follow more than a few dozen people.
I think a lot of people are not going to be satisfied with anything other than a Twitter clone. And I really think that failing the magic the only way to produce a performant Twitter clone is via some version of a big db controlled by a single entity.
Personally, for me, censorship resistance is way more important than all kinds of things that Twitter has that I don't care about so for me that trade-off is easy to make.
Since I got involved with nostr I've been ranting against doing things that Twitter does that I think are impossible to do (properly) in a meaningfully decentralized protocol. Like counting likes and followers. I mean, of course you can count them as long as you are satisfied with a count that is always wrong and sometimes way wrong and totally wastes resources to compile.
Personally, I'm here to read what certain people have to say. I don't give the slightest shit how many people follow them or how many people like what they say. But what I want from a system like this is different from what others want. I won't ever need to follow more than a few dozen people.