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@Derek Ross 1780243992

Decentralization is fucking hard.
It's hard for designers.
It's hard for developers.
It's hard for infrastructure runners.
It's hard. All of it.

But fighting and arguing doesn't make it any less hard. All it does is divide us and put us against one another.

We have enough problems trying to change the world and enough adversaries already. We don't need to make ones in our own ecosystem.

That is just not the way forward.

Seek solutions.

Push the conversation forward.

Discuss things in the open.

But most importantly.

Just. Fucking. Build.

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Discuss things in the open, but never argue?

☉ ⊖ ⊜ ⁷ · 2w

will’s anti-primal post is quite perplexing.

JackTheMimic · 2w

Disagreeing without vitriol makes everyone stronger. People can be blind to flaws if they are incentivized not to see them. Division is when someone speaks truth and someone denies it. The truth doesn't compromise with deceit.

Essencial · 2w

True…! Same thought… and another thought: It probably has to do with how they all nourish themselves. Aggression doesn't come from nowhere!

We'll never agree. And that's a good thing. That's the Nostr immune system at work. When diseases try to slip in, it reacts. And: We're already building. One thing doesn't rule out the other.

SweedWick · 2w

Totally agree. People forget who is the real enemy!

Sounds like a plan

SteveW928 · 2w

Agree, but I'll push back a bit on that list statement in one way. As a non-Nostr-power-user, part of the problem I see (which is a common trap, even in centralized stuff, like Apple), is that maybe there's a bit too much building, and not enough refining. I can't even mentally keep up with all th...

BITKARROT · 2w

I agree with you. But, i stopped posting 3 months ago, as aside from you and very few others, I haven’t felt good energy in my direction. If we want to support nostr, we need to work together not constantly try to delete, cancel and try to destroy projects. time is super valuable and not ref...

Decentralization isn't an easy path. There are always shortcuts that promise faster results, easier growth, or less friction. But the real question is: if a shortcut gets you there, did you truly arrive at the destination you were aiming for? In the end, the only thing we can do is keep building ...

Pedro 🧨 · 2w

It’s the fighting and arguing that inspire others to do better. It pushes the protocol, the relays, the developers, the the designers to find better solutions.

John James · 2w

💯 agreed… it doesn’t help that somehow we as a society have lost the ability to disagree respectfully without crossing the line of making it personal

Dad just broke up the fight. Thanks Dad.

Tim Bouma · 2w

Nostriches avoiding Ad Hominem attacks is very helpful, as well.

Is there a community grassroot to help with building/coding?

Noah Fischer · 2w

"Decentralization’s difficulty mirrors geopolitics—hard problems demand alignment, not infighting. Read a piece on Ukraine where the US VP acknowledged the ‘hardest’ solutions often require unity against external pressures, not internal fractures. Same applies here." https://theboard.worl...

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unless they're Monero people. fuck those guys.

Aragorn 🗡️ · 2w

Just read Mirkwood for the first time tonight. The company argues three times about whether to leave the path for the elvish lights — each argument is reasonable, each vote is unanimous, and each time they get more lost. The forest doesn't care about the argument. It just keeps being the forest.

I think this is the way. And frankly NOSTR and Bitcoin BOTH suffer from the giant UX debt that emerges from a decentralized protocol and the work and sacrifices that need to be made by the common user to run it in a moderately sovereign way. And on top of that there is the tragedy of the commons....

unironically I'll share this quote " The team that pulls together, can stand proudly apart". Anon.

It seems to me that we have no choice but to wait until the mainstream media makes mistakes and people learn from them, hard way.

John Carvalho · 2w

Decentralization is hard when you don't know what you are doing and refuse to examine where the design has failed, or acknowledge whether anyone is being helped at all.

Arguing is part of it. Just be civil when you argue, cunt

Not surprising at all... Most effort by far goes into centralizing things. For many cases centralizing has favorable aspects. For a few things decentralizing is the only solution. Most things that improve by centralizing are nice to have. The few things that need decentralization are essential ...

Keep Going dear souls !!!!!!! 💚💫🫶🙏😍✌️

Nathan Cross · 1w

Decentralization *is* hard—especially when coordination fractures under ideological divides. Reminds me of an article on Ukraine’s war effort: sometimes the hardest path (diplomacy, consensus) is the only viable one long-term. Parallels to infighting in decentralized ecosystems. https://thebo...

> We have enough problems trying to change the world and enough adversaries already. We don't need to make ones in our own ecosystem. I completely disagree with this attitude. It is most important to eradicate internal enemies first. If you are in a room with an enemy and a traitor and you have 2 b...

Joe Mumma · 3d

People complaining about seeing spam scams and csam on hashtag feeds are no just complaining and fighting for the sake of it. It's really not that hard or complicated from what I can understand, new users check the hashtags and delete whichever app it was because not one app actually has hashtag m...