Damus
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Catering to the dumbest of the dumb is a straw man argument. And it always has negative consequences. Just think a few steps ahead. What do normal users deal with? A username and password combination like

dumbFerret : myPet123

On Nostr the equivalent would be

npub1983hifi24jb8248t3r... : nsec189df2487dcwjz3dg...

It's basically not much different. It just looks a bit more cryptic on Nostr. And that scares off "normal" users? Can't they just put it in a password manager?

If so, then we're really dealing with the dumbest of the dumb. And what happens then? When we've got the dumbest of the dumb users on here?

The discussions get dumber.
The arguments too.
We've got more pigeons shitting on the chessboard.
We've got no consensus anymore.
No people who understand language, who still know the definition of words.
=> We've got Twitter/X!

Is that what we want? At any cost? If so, my next question: Who benefits from it, who profits from it? Follow the money and you know where this nonsense comes from.

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ethfi · 5d
Learned something new
ابو مريم · 5d
i had to explain to a manager the differences between an inclusive statement and an exclusive one today. 🤦🏻‍♂️ we already were there before nostr or the internet. it is an intentional development focus on quanitative results (number of users go up) vs qualitative experience of the commu...
laoc42 · 5d
I thought keypairs would be a problem. Turns out even people asking me what the "slash" is on the keyboard are able to save a simple long "word". It's even better 'cause they don't even have to remember a username for it
Bitcoin Sikho · 5d
I personally think that we (clients ?) haven’t done a good job with explaining what the key pairs are and how powerful they are In design there are couple of ways to tackle an issue, obfuscate the whole point to make it feel seamless for the user (at the cost of user not knowing how important key...
Dr. The Daniel 🖖 · 5d
What money, lol. Pretty much no one is getting paid for developing in this space.
Don Dahir · 5d
Exactly! You can only simplify things far enough to the point it becomes ridiculous. I think that's why we are getting dumber as a society.
digga 🇩🇪 · 5d
Keypair knowledge is not the only barrier. I am quite tech-savvy and understand the underlying concept yet joining nostr was a challenge. Your simple explanation nupub… : nsec… is nowhere to be found when starting out. I also didn't understand where my data would be saved. I had to test almos...
Karadenizli · 5d
It boggles my mind how this topic is completely botched by both sides of the argument. Yes, normies know how passwords work and they could use nsecs the same way. Its retarded to hear devs make up shitty fake google logins to solve it. On the other hand, you really said users can put their nsec ...
codonaft · 4d
> Catering to the dumbest of the dumb is a straw man argument This teaches me something about argumentation; thanks for your wisdom. I definitely don't support many things normies consider socially normal/acceptable when it comes to security and sovereignty in particular (the Google-based login is...
verita84 · 4d
Dam you making me want to go back to X