Wallingford on Nostr: Most will probably start with damus. And most people equate tech with the UI front ...
Most will probably start with damus. And most people equate tech with the UI front end. But nostr, given its ethos and the fluidity of development in clients, is a good reminder that layers and protocols are where the magic happens. The UI is secondary if the thing is to last.
It strikes me as a bit of an internet time machine, warts and all (like difficulty of use, uptime). After a burst of open, interoperable protocols in the early days of the internet, we've been living through a 25+ year period of proprietary user interface and tech, the goal being to keep eyeballs on your site to sell ads. This is like going back a few decades to watch the development of a basic internet standard, designed to be interoperable, designed to be open, designed to scale to do who knows what.
It strikes me as a bit of an internet time machine, warts and all (like difficulty of use, uptime). After a burst of open, interoperable protocols in the early days of the internet, we've been living through a 25+ year period of proprietary user interface and tech, the goal being to keep eyeballs on your site to sell ads. This is like going back a few decades to watch the development of a basic internet standard, designed to be interoperable, designed to be open, designed to scale to do who knows what.