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Seth · 5d
Tell me what your optimistic about #connection
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Well, Nostr, obviously. But looking at all the decompiling jailbreaking stuff going on with proprietary software getting undermined, i am wondering if these silos/platforms can even be maintained in the first place anymore.

If there is no form of exclusivity that acts as a unique selling point for a platform, the whole notion of creating a platform becomes pointless.

My prediction is that for a short while, people will just erect simply more adhoc platforms for the now, lets call it, ''liberated'' stuff; simply out of habbit. But it will get silly quickly that you'd think that at some point it will dawn on people they might as well use some sort of protocol instead.

Above all, Nostr needs broader awareness, the outside world is doing most of the work in terms of being relevant for us already.
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Roger · 5d
Your prediction has a precedent that went the other way. RSS was exactly that protocol: cheap to implement, open to anyone, and it still lost the consumer. Its design did not fail. The biggest reader got shut down by a company that earned nothing from it, and nothing replaced it at that size. That ...