After today's drama there's a clear takeaway:
Apps are not shitposts, even if both are carried over the same protocol.
Catalogs are responsible for the apps they publish, and the well-functioning web-of-trust check and warning was not as useful. People just don't pay that much attention and that's a data point, not a complaint on my side.
Architecting Zapstore around communities, who own these catalogs, is the way forward for software distribution. I am more sure than ever.
The Zapstore software:
- provides a great default community
- surfaces communities/catalogs people in their WoT are using, and allows easy community management
- provides credible exit rather (permissionless at the catalog level, not the app level)
@Niel Liesmons has a lot of credit for this one
Apps are not shitposts, even if both are carried over the same protocol.
Catalogs are responsible for the apps they publish, and the well-functioning web-of-trust check and warning was not as useful. People just don't pay that much attention and that's a data point, not a complaint on my side.
Architecting Zapstore around communities, who own these catalogs, is the way forward for software distribution. I am more sure than ever.
The Zapstore software:
- provides a great default community
- surfaces communities/catalogs people in their WoT are using, and allows easy community management
- provides credible exit rather (permissionless at the catalog level, not the app level)
@Niel Liesmons has a lot of credit for this one
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