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Contra · 28w
Been watching the anthropological experiment that is Nostr unfold since 2022-23. It’s been fascinating to observe the great sorting mechanism at work. Scrolled through my follow list today, a bit o...
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This condescending speech instead of acknowledging that there might be other reasons why people leave is part of what makes nostr unappealing

The UX is so bad sometimes I'm basically only seeing people like you in my feed because everybody else left

You want to circle-jerk how great your protocol is, while my notifications aren’t loading or when they load, they aren’t consistent across clients or straight-up inconsistent within the same client, the note to which someone is replying isn’t loading, I need to click for each reply I want to read because no client can render a whole tree of replies at once, SSR isn’t possible on nostr because the client fetches the content (else it’s not a nostr client), devs are telling users they need to configure more, less or different relays? Cool, do it without me

These also aren’t just “client issues.” The protocol makes it hard to provide a good UX without Primal-style centralization (and Primal still suffers from very similar issues.)
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Contra · 28w
You’re proving my point beautifully. Yes, the UX is rough. Yes, the protocol has trade offs. But notice what you’re really saying: “I’ll sacrifice censorship resistance for smoother notifications.” This is precisely the revealed preference I’m describing. You want the benefits of soverei...
Constant · 23w
Amethyst renders entire threads, yakihonne will eventually. I think everyone in this discussion is missing the actual point, which is that perhaps the most difficult part irt Nostr is that it is reinventing the wheel. The web already exists; most of what Nostr has to offer is basically the same thi...