What is Nostr?
PABLOF7z
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2023-08-12 22:12:32
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PABLOF7z on Nostr: nostr:note1d8hgcwt0gj38tfgmxuqy2av9rwesk2c08j46d5pte69406ts8ezqxx5z8a Talking about ...

For a long time I didn’t realize Nostr wasn’t useful just for “social networking” things. I wonder what else could have been better designed in the relay-client interface if the needs of non-social-networking apps were kept in mind.

Talking about social-media vs non-social-media use cases for me sometimes feels weird.

Most of the stuff that nostr improves *is* social media, understanding that term as "things that benefit from a social graph". In that sense, i.e. Zapstr (npub1zap…qhp9) is a social media client, it's just not focused on short-text as the main driver but rather songs and podcasts.

With that caveat out of the way:

yes, as a developer mostly focused on non-twitter-like interactions, often I find myself having to think around the design constraint of kind:1s being, well, #1. -- I don't think is a big deal, but would be nice if all use cases had mostly equal footing in the protocol.
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