Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

The "no different from twitter" is a bit of an exaggeration perhaps, at least on some aspects of Nostr, I agree. I am personally a big user of primal as well despite it having centralised tendency. But we must be open about it and clear and voice our concerns so that the devs steer development in the correct direction. And by the way the "use other clients" is not a good argument, if primal becomes the biggest client no one will build other clients. What we should do is use the decentralised clients and improve the protocol for better experience instead of going centralised.

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Dikaios1517 dikaios1517@nostrplebs.com 11 months ago

Wait... "Use other clients is not a good argument," but "what we should do is use the decentralized (other) clients"? I don't share your concern that "if Primal becomes the biggest client no one will build other clients." Primal simply does not and will not ever do all the things that users want. They are absolutely optimizing for the newbie. Thing about that is newbies don't remain newbies for long. Eventually they want to try other things, or they see a note quoting some event kind that Primal doesn't display and they ask how they can see that note. There will be other clients that do some things better. Primal doesn't have live-streams, but Amethyst and noStrudel do, and zap.stream is specialized to ONLY that kind of content. Same thing goes for other types of content, such as photos. Olas is optimizing for an image feed, so is slidestr.net in a different way. Different users are going to prefer each approach. Amethyst has integrated the same event kind as Olas, but I happen to prefer Olas' UI for browsing images over that of Amethyst. The point is, different clients will ALWAYS have their strengths and weaknesses, so there will almost certainly be a few major clients on each platform (iOS, Android, Desktop, Web) and then a MASSIVE number of specialty clients that focus on a particular type of content or use-case. Even if Primal gains (or maybe has gained?) the largest user-base by simply being the easiest to use, other clients will still have a decent market-share because they provide other things users value that Primal has opted not to include.

dangershony 11 months ago

I am not sure it is true that people will move away when they are not newbies anymore, people tend to stick to the first app they use. Now imagine if primal has a big chunk of the network and it is taken down by gov, what will this do to Nostrs reputation? I am not sure myself maybe the damage won't be big because people will just download a more decentralised client, but then why not use a decentralised client from the start? Why not just focus on the decentralised direction and improve that? If we can't create a good user experience that way we might as well just give up.