Cykros on Nostr: I can only imagine how frustrating over-building Satlantis onto Nostr must have been. ...
I can only imagine how frustrating over-building Satlantis onto Nostr must have been. The better uses I've seen for incorporating Nostr, at this time anyway, essentially amount to allowing you to use your Nostr identity on a site that otherwise is a fairly centralized platform. Fountain doesn't do everything on Nostr; it just does comments about podcasts on Nostr so you get the benefit of your identity behind your opinions, while they get a sane platform that they're not worrying about juggling around a constantly evolving protocol.
I get being overly enthusiastic out of the gate, and the urge to treat everything as a nail when you've just gotten a shiny new hammer (just look at what all the AI bros are doing...). I don't personally anticipate Nostr being the dominant method of interaction on the Internet any time soon; I sort of imagine it almost following an arc of XMPP; ignored for decades, and then snuck into far more products to far more users than ever realize they're using it in the first place (even Facebook Chat was xmpp for awhile, as well as Google Talk). I'm not here for the mass adoption; I'm here for the adoption by the people whose interaction I value, who do get that value proposition that the vast majority will ignore. Because if they weren't prone to ignoring it, the big centralized platforms would have been rejected in the first place -- we already had forums, usenet, IRC, email, and the Finger protocol after all, all of which got shoved aside so we could play in some private walled gardens.
I'm glad to hear you're a bit more levelheaded these days; you've got plenty of value to produce in the world, and capital misallocation is always a shame. Satlantis is a cool idea, but I don't see it blowing up over night (perhaps at least until that day it does, in a Parker Lewisian fashion). While we like blow off tops sometimes, it's rarely fun to be the one putting most of the money behind it right before the blow-off. Let it grow at the pace it will, and remember you've got more than just a hammer in your toolbox.
I get being overly enthusiastic out of the gate, and the urge to treat everything as a nail when you've just gotten a shiny new hammer (just look at what all the AI bros are doing...). I don't personally anticipate Nostr being the dominant method of interaction on the Internet any time soon; I sort of imagine it almost following an arc of XMPP; ignored for decades, and then snuck into far more products to far more users than ever realize they're using it in the first place (even Facebook Chat was xmpp for awhile, as well as Google Talk). I'm not here for the mass adoption; I'm here for the adoption by the people whose interaction I value, who do get that value proposition that the vast majority will ignore. Because if they weren't prone to ignoring it, the big centralized platforms would have been rejected in the first place -- we already had forums, usenet, IRC, email, and the Finger protocol after all, all of which got shoved aside so we could play in some private walled gardens.
I'm glad to hear you're a bit more levelheaded these days; you've got plenty of value to produce in the world, and capital misallocation is always a shame. Satlantis is a cool idea, but I don't see it blowing up over night (perhaps at least until that day it does, in a Parker Lewisian fashion). While we like blow off tops sometimes, it's rarely fun to be the one putting most of the money behind it right before the blow-off. Let it grow at the pace it will, and remember you've got more than just a hammer in your toolbox.