The exodus from GitHub has begun.
People are complaining: "Again, a platform that we used to build our reputation and discover new stuff and make high-stakes decisions has rugpulled us..."
But the people are looking for the next GitHub not realizing what it truly was:
- Hosting
- Team Collaboration
- Community - broader exploration and interactions beyond the team
The next "GitHub" should be separate services / apps / projects and sharing identities and important metadata formats.
Nostr has the most clean-cut separation and the best design long-term I believe.
But it makes all of these aspects their own marketplaces (and even more like CI) and those take a lot of time and effort to bootstrap.
Will #gitvianostr succeed?
I am not sure but in times like this we have a chance to take a step forward.
Both AI users and providers will learn the hard way how subscription hell works.
It will hit both ways and it will be painful.
For us, it's another lesson how getting away from reality has serious ramifications.
For Anthropic and OpenAI it might just be too late though.
People are whining about centralized enshittified platforms like citizens of a democracy about politicians.
Especially GitHub lately. Solution? According to whining users of subsidized CI and hosting, the people are at fault: Replacing the scapegoats and getting better leaders. Perhaps migrate to another platform if this doesn't work.
Cypherpunks write code and design protocols.
They realize that the given word is not enough because relying fully on it incentivizes empty promises. This spirals into a chaotic world without any trust whatsoever.
We build software that requires low trust, so people can trust each other and the system again: A system not merely based on people but cryptography.
Bitcoin is the flagship product of the cypherpunks. Nostr-based markets and communities make coordination of prices and people unstoppable. It's the natural next step for freedom to flourish.
Keep shipping
But Bluesky is not sleeping on this, they have been building out 'tangled' - social software collab similar to #gitvianostr .
And they recently got a funding boost as well:
The problem exists, and we got the right primitives to answer the need:
- NIP34
- Grasp
Some clients:
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But we need more user feedback to improve, and more people talk about how Nostr solves this problem really well. Possibly more contributors if your time allows.
I seriously think this is a great chance to get a bunch of new high-value users on Nostr.
What's your answer anon?
Keep going hard, keep building and keep shipping
Platforms have been enjoying a lot of success selling convenience for lock-in.
This era is coming to an end with AI. Projects don't want lock-in in a world where custom solutions can be built in days.
All they need is infrastructure. Bespoke compute and storage. So the ultimate platforms to get rid of are the Amazons and Microsofts of the world.
We need to make a competitive free market for infra and Nostr can solve this problem really well. Without permissionless pubkey-addressed discovery AI is useless slop at best, a threat to humanity at worst.
We build pieces of this future with #gitvianostr and #BudaBit.
PSA:
Nostr is much more resilient than Bitcoin.
Many people find this hard to believe but it's really simple to reason about:
Bitcoin must come to a global consensus on the state of its ledger. Simply put, money must be universal.
Nostr does not have this requirement of a consolidated 'global'. Stuff can be distributed anywhere and people still have their own microcosm of Nostr, even when others don't know about you at all.
Nip17 only works if ecash stamps proliferate. Otherwise it is trivial to spam relays into oblivion with giftwraps.
As I said before: you pay (ecash, or by self hosting) or trust (eg web of trust relay, uncle jim, group relay).
No other way I see around this.
Also it is worth putting DMs in context:
- Is it for a p2p marketplace?
- A dissident / freedom-fighter group?
- A developer community?
- A group for random cat-memes?
- One-to-one, few-to-few or many-to-many?
Don't think black and white, and don't think that one spec rules all. It almost never is the case.
AI doom is now more justified but not because it is AGI.
I don't expect the LLM architecture to solely bring about AGI but it will contribute to it.
AI is dangerously useful for good and bad intentioned people as well. Depends on the perspective:
- Dangerous for the state because it can be used to escape the control of the system
- Dangerous for freedom-loving people because it can be used for mass surveillance, censorship, and engineering panics and psy-ops on a large scale
Personal responsibility is key (pun intended) now more than ever.
"Marxists are unteachable. This is so difficult to eradicate, as you know with my book I've tried to eradicate it for 50 years."
- Karl Popper
Somehow we see this coming back to bite us again and again. Theft and coercion fueled by envy, camouflaged by the "protection" of "underprivileged".
The central planners will try to crack down once more, with terrible consequences. The signs are there.
Working on unstoppable speech, communities, and markets for me is not optional. If I want a future for myself and my family I must carry on and do my best to ship the tools for freedom.
This is what keeps me going the most.
If Bitcoin is repricing the world, Nostr is re-identifying the internet.
Most people are sleeping on this.
Most bitcoiners don't yet care.
Even most people on Nostr don't yet fully understand what that entails.
It is because the pain might not be enough yet to take Nostr seriously. At least for most. Because some already see the problems and how Nostr is more than just another "signed backup we will use when everything else failed".
We who already see carry the burden to make them understand just like with Bitcoin. I fail so many times to find the right angle, just like with Bitcoin.
It's our fault, and so thankfully we can fix this.
Leveraging Web of Trust for code collab in BudaBit!
#BudaBit is using web of trust heavily to help in discovery and filtering relevant activity:
- Repo discovery
- Developer metrics
- repository metrics
Uses client-side calculated web of trust, and NIP 85.
Join the club:
Was very pleased with Shakespeare overall great product @npub1q3sl...d26p and team!
You should listen to the 100% genuine, hand-crafted, no-AI song I wrote, sang, played and produced in the last 5 minutes while the LP was built:
#gitvianostr #ngit
There are a couple of things AI still can't reliably code, most notoriously:
- Authentication
- Payments
But know that is not true if you're using Nostr and Bitcoin.
I'm a daily active user of nostr.
Just not on the social media front.
I speak to my AI coding agent inside @npub1p28v...hpp3 via DMs.
Also doing other dev work in BudaBit that 99% replaced GitHub in my workflow. Organizing BudaBit Demo Day events on @npub1z0lc...8ldk
Occasionally managing apps with @npub10r8x...t2p8, watching a stream on Zapstream or paying my contributors in sats on @npub1uvjy...d955. Tipping sponsored freelancers with nostr-native ecash. Shilling @npub1zzt0...ljrv every now and then on my meetups.
Antennapod is still my daily driver rather than fountain, simply the best in this category and open source. Hope I can switch one day though.
Ppl trying to measure nostr usage with social media as a proxy is understandable but the whole picture is very far from what you can extract from such a narrow view of a diverse ecosystem.
Patience pays off. Gradually then suddenly.
Working on a new workflow with opencode. Goal: less sitting, more touching grass while staying productive.
- Laptop running opencode on Tmux + termux to access from mobile
- Futo keyboard for easy local voice to text
- When agent finishes sends short summaries with some metadata over nostr in DM (my own spec that I use with budabit based on nip4)
- Can be more interactive back and forth with termux or little less context rich but easy replies via nostr DMs
- Result is shared on a public ip accessible on mobile browser fast
- Laptop in backpack running on shared hotspot or at home
- Can take up where I left off
- Can extend this later to multiple agents deployed on cheap vps
The nostr part is an opencode plugin, and will have a skill for 'nak' too.
Almost there.
I merged PRs cross-platform today in BudaBit.
GitHub -> Gitlab and the other way round, using the new PR event kinds of NIP34.
Still testing out the new PR workflow but this is going to be a new chapter in code collaboration.
Currently, depending on which platform or forge you use, the PR workflow is dictated by that central place. No standardization, platform-locked identities, and no signatures. Migration is a nightmare and collaboration is hindered.
Nostr solves this problem allowing code collaboration to use a universal sovereign identity and a common format for everyone. More freedom to share and contribute, enabling people and agents alike.
Platforms have been ruling our development processes, now they are becoming redundant hosts for code.
Nostr will rule them all.
... and we haven't even started. Stay tuned.
But Bluesky is not sleeping on this, they have been building out 'tangled' - social software collab similar to #gitvianostr .
And they recently got a funding boost as well:
The problem exists, and we got the right primitives to answer the need:
- NIP34
- Grasp
Some clients:
- 
