Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

I think people expect Nostr to be the next (every)thing, but to me, after 2 years working at a Nostr startup (@Satlantis: Social Events), trying to use it for virtually everything, I realized Nostr is "just" (forgive me @fiatjaf for the use of "just") the next big thing for identity management. There's people obsessed with building EVERYTHING on Nostr (I even saw a guy building an Operating System with Nostr). Who knows, maybe one day Nostr will be the everything tool, but at the moment it's a unique tool, a GREAT one to manage our identities in a sovereign way. Anything else should be built reusing technologies that have longer track records and are more efficient. Here's an article @Alekandar Svetski wrote about it. He called it "As Nostr As Possible":

Satlantis Blog

As Nostr As Possible (ANAP)

A more sensible way to build "with" Nostr

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Constant 1 week ago

"Anything else should be built reusing technologies that have longer track records and are more efficient." If you mean how it is done with for example GRASP/ngit, we agree. But i don't think we agree...

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Scoundrel 1 week ago

True. Nostr is, and should always be, just one small tool in a wider ecosystem. It sucks because I can come up with a few really cool use-cases for it if people don't try to make it swollow the entire project whole.

fiatjaf _@fiatjaf.com 1 week ago

I agree that trying to build "everything" on Nostr is a bad strategic error. Specially when these things are even more dependent on network-effect than a microblogging social network (like uber or Nostr, for example) or when they depend on private communications. People have been trying to do this since day one, though, it's just something wrong with the mind of developers. But I think tools that are "social" in nature and mostly involving publishing human-scale content in the open but don't require that the entire world is using them in order to be useful (like geocaching, for example) are good niches through which Nostr can expand.

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