Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

arkinox arkinox@team.fanfares.io 1 year ago

Hi @:P. I'm sorry to hear you don't like my project. As far as having skin in the game, perhaps you missed the part of my post where I mention that I went from being a full time employee (at a job I'd had for 16 years) to part time so that I could work on nostr. Reducing my benefits and income felt like skin in the game for me. OpenSats exists to give people opportunities like this. Now I am full time nostr and working for a nostr company. No grants. My case is fairly ideal in that in one year OpenSats helped me go from hopeful nostr dev to full time nostr dev. I am very grateful for that opportunity. I hope others have similar successes. If OpenSats can get people to move from fiat world into full-time nostr dev and not depending on grants, that's a win right? Additionally it may bring you peace of mind that my grant was probably one of the smallest grants OpenSats has awarded in terms of money. I believe my work on ONOSENDAI has yielded some benefits to nostr at large. Here are some points that you might appreciate: - I developed a generalized NIP-13 mining algorithm for web which other clients can use. This algo is more efficient than existing algorithms. - I developed the first Nostr client that transports 3D data over nostr. This could be used in a host of applications not limited to tweet transport. - I developed a coordinate system that can serve as a superset of geospatial positioning systems, increasing integration between nostr and real world locations. As you can see from the community response to my announcement, people seem pretty excited about a permissionless metaverse where actions are consequential. No such thing exists outside of Nostr. I don't know what lies ahead, but if any metaverse matters in the future I want it to be one where proof of work matters more than privilege or authority. At the very least I think that ONOSENDAI stands as a testament to exploring possibilities with nostr and I hope it inspires others to be wildly creative and push the boundaries of this protocol that I love so much. In my announcement I mentioned I launched the straylight.cafe ditto community. In my free time I am committed to nurturing the new cyberspace community to grow and develop it. Even though my grant is over I want to see cyberspace thrive. You don't have to change your mind. I just thought you might appreciate some perspective. PV

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:P 1 year ago

Hey Arkinox, I appreciate your response here. My point is that even though you sacrificed hours at your job you didn’t actually commit a meaningful amount of hours to your project until you received the grant. Many developers in the space have full time jobs and commit resources (time and money) prior to receiving grants if any. Most grant recipients already have a project in the production stage where your project was still in the idea / prototyping stage. It’s no secret that I’m against the metaverse. But maybe I’m wrong. Can you tell me what the opportunity is here? What’s the best possible outcome for your project? How does Bitcoin and Nostr benefit? To be frank it seems that your project falls short of the opensats mission statement - “Help us to provide sustainable funding for free and open-source contributors working on freedom tech and projects that help bitcoin flourish.” The metaverse is literally the matrix, it’s “the anti-bitcoin”. The opposite of touch grass. Not to mention 10s of billions of dollars have been spent on trying to build these metaverses in which all of them failed. I get the feeling that a lot of Nostr devs think they deserve to get paid just because they put in work. And Opensats is over here giving out participation trophies to their close buddies even if the project is out of scope. How many other opensats projects were funded solely on an idea/ MVP?

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Tekkadan, ゲロゲロ! 🐸 _@mycelium.social 1 year ago

Weird to attack someone's project before asking real questions You know nobody forced anyone to volunteer development efforts to Nostr? I could open a business that caters to 1 million Bitcoiners per year and OpenSats owes me nothing. There's also nothing "anti-Bitcoin" about metaverses. You're projecting hard with your own dissolutions. The two things can be totally separate and the underlying concept is sovereignty. Just like Nostr. You don't have to use Bitcoin here and you can use Monero or other shitcoins if you build the bridge. You want ONOSENDAI to be a fun MMORPG that you enjoy with your Nostr friends. It can totally support that endeavor but it's like you expect the framework to be the product. This underlying tech can make all sorts of unique applications come to fruition. No one owes you a product, and arkinox is not building a short-term idea. You can literally decide what a metaverse means to you. You can build on it. The fact that you can't comprehend the value in it is your burden to bear- no one else's. Imagine me hounding Vic to explain why voice chats are important for Bitcoin. That's how you sound. If you want to get philosophical, name something that ISN'T good for Bitcoin. Then tell us again why you're mad that someone else received some Satoshis.