joel on Nostr: It's going to be a very interesting social experiment to see how the app and relay ...
It's going to be a very interesting social experiment to see how the app and relay devs manage their involuntary (probably unwanted) roles as gatekeepers during the rapid expansion of the #nostr protocol user base.
The protocol itself is attempting to be pure and unbiased with a hope it can provide a bulletproof repository of data, but the delivery mechanism currently still depends on the decision making process of the relay owners and the client developers.
In just two days we've watched devs and relay owners have to wrestle with the problems of massive queries, spam, porn etc already considering what to filter and what to allow from an informational value standpoint.
It's one thing to run your own relay and client, something that offers the purest experience, but in a world of spoon-fed consumerism that demands 'Just make it work on an App' the seething horde tempts the well intentioned developer to satiate it's appetite, only to be set upon by the masses when all of the best attempts fail to satisfy the infinite avalanche of demands put upon the developer.
Not an unfamiliar experience for some, right jack (npub1sg6…f63m) ?
The protocol itself is attempting to be pure and unbiased with a hope it can provide a bulletproof repository of data, but the delivery mechanism currently still depends on the decision making process of the relay owners and the client developers.
In just two days we've watched devs and relay owners have to wrestle with the problems of massive queries, spam, porn etc already considering what to filter and what to allow from an informational value standpoint.
It's one thing to run your own relay and client, something that offers the purest experience, but in a world of spoon-fed consumerism that demands 'Just make it work on an App' the seething horde tempts the well intentioned developer to satiate it's appetite, only to be set upon by the masses when all of the best attempts fail to satisfy the infinite avalanche of demands put upon the developer.
Not an unfamiliar experience for some, right jack (npub1sg6…f63m) ?