It isn't self-hosting that is the problem. It is the setup and network layer.
Do you have complaints about self-hosting solitaire or minesweeper? Of course not! They install without configuration and just work.
I'd counter with give me a protocol that doesn't require configuration of any apps that use it.
I don't want to pay for hosted services, not out of unwillingness to pay, but because that means I have configure something. Try telling people that they can have a great video-editing program and here are 14 companies they can pay to use it each with slightly different versions and pros and cons, but at least they are mostly interoperable.
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That being said #nostr is a great start. It just has a very long way to go.
Solitaire and mindsweeper are incapsulated, not designed for multi-player use.
Nostr is more akin to e-mail, but I should only have to set it up once, on each device.
No. There is no logical reason that you should have to set it up once for each device once the devices share an identity. I used non-networking examples to show what the ideal experience is because our networking sucks. IP is fine, but everything downstream of that is suspect because things keep gravitating back into silos because of spam.
The only resilient form of communication is in person conversation. So far. We can and must be able to piggy-back off that. Once we stop accepting that networking has to suck, we can start building applications that ordinary people can use.
