Those developer factions will not include their users. Users of the clients will always want to see messages from each other, no matter what client they are using. Users are not going to be ideologically split by the ideology of the authors of their favorite client. This means that the client developers will find themselves under very intense pressure to cooperate and interoperate. They can stamp their feet all they want; and throw all the tantrums they like. But they WILL eventually be forced, by their constinuents, to work together. They can do this the easy way, or the hard way, but they will eventually do it. Because WE are nostr, not THEY. >From: (cypherhoodlum) at 04/25/23 08:04:32 on wss://relay.damus.io >--------------- >Bitcoin and Nostr are different though, because Nostr doesn't have any consensus algorithm. If you stubbornly choose the wrong chain, you lose money or degrade your security. If you choose "the wrong nostr client" (which doesn't exist) your client is not interoperable with other clients. Factions emerge and social networks split, but there is no economical incentive to switch clients whatsoever.

I can’t see many images people post now because of this Damus/Amethyst drama. Interoperability is already being destroyed. That was the entire point of my post. It’s the exact same principle. If you don’t get it, that’s fine..

True, you have a point there. If a rogue dev breaks interoperability badly enough, no one will want to use the app anymore, forcing the dev(s) to either ensure interoperability or lose contributors and users. Nothing a single dev can do about it. That's the beauty of Nostr.

Yeah my point was there's not as much incentive to mend the already breaking interoperability in Nostr than there is in Bitcoin. Although there will be enormous pressure to make apps on Nostr fully interoperable, it's not as clear who is in the right because there is no consensus mechanism like there is in Bitcoin. The longest chain wins. The fork with the highest hashrate wins. Which client implementation wins on Nostr? Who knows? What do you mean by universal consensus btw?