I think it’s important to separate enthusiasm and monothought from devs and cheerleaders and for those devs not to be scared of upsetting that core user base of cheerleaders who’s makeup I estimate about:
20% genuinely into nostr
30% bitcoin maxis
50% moonbois who larp as maxis
When I hear devs get defensive about these critiques that couldn’t just be about devs (people who spend more time working on the protocol than using it) what I see is them sticking their necks out for the moonbois and that’s sad. That’s the source of aesthetic tension that I believe keeps people behind me in line away from using these tools, and to have that being reflected in the product is a non-starter for anyone more normal.
I find Douglas Murray to be extreme. Piers Morgan is a clown whose replacement of Larry King on CNN was the pivot point of the fall of American journalism. But this logic of this question is sound and so apparent to me. I don’t go out and join either side right now.
Great conversation with James Lindsey full video includes a dialog with the British journalist Aaron Bastani who wrote the manifesto: fully automated luxury communism