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armstrys · 3d
Literally same metal failure most crypto bros made/make when falling for VC-backed tokens over bitcoin. The whole point is that it’s simple, it’s cheap, and you don’t need crazy server farms to ...
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Yeah, it's been sad seeing that happen here, but I think it's because they compare themselves with stuff like X or Instagram, rather than focusing on our own project landscape. In their own minds, they're the solution, not the problem.

I don't want Nostr to end up another Matrix or BlueSky, where there is theoretically lots of different apps and servers, but effectively only one of each because so much money was poured into it that it consumed the network and began dictating conditions.
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armstrys · 3d
I think the good news is that the foundation is right. Nostr is so modular and based on simple cryptographic primitives with such little consensus that the most decentralized and free version should always exist. At this point it seems inevitable that true decentralization and freedom comes at a c...