Imagine that the most handsome, charismatic person stares you straight in the eyes and says: "You are special. You look good. And you are good at what you do"

I just watched the documentary "The Age of Disclosure" (2025) and I really don't know what to think about it.

I would be willing to believe that UAPs exist, but this whole thing seems more like some kind of meta psyops theater to me, especially without any real tangible evidence. It's all just words.

My npub is older than yours. If you want to engage with the critique, do it.

The longer I lurk here, the more I feel that it can't be fixed anyway. Just like with the AT Protocol, where the problem is excessive centralization, here the problem is the opposite, a lack of coordination.

I don't think it's about scale - even events for thousands can be done differently, as CCC and similar demonstrate. It's about approach and principles. We did UTXO.22 for 1.2k locals - gave space to anyone who wanted to speak with minimal curation, didn't sell any stupid commercial stands etc. It's just hard to imagine how these events can work because most conferences operate on classical top-down curated models.

My understanding is that decentralized protocols need some centralization at the beginning to become truly decentralized later (sounds like a paradox) - something to coordinate people and give them the focus needed. That's why we had Satoshi, that's why I think it's good we have Ethereum Foundation.

We need some institution to bootstrap these protocols, but we also have to work to make these institutions irrelevant later. Maybe Nostr's problem wasn't max decentralization itself, but premature decentralization before the protocol reached sufficient completeness?

I agree with this, but a hard-fork that replicates the same mistake just recreates the same environment.

This is exactly why I asked why it cemented so early - if we understand what made Nostr ossify prematurely (before reaching completeness), maybe forks could be designed differently to avoid repeating it. Otherwise we're just building a hardware store of equally frozen protocols.

Ano, to je konkurence pro nás, já používám Amazon pořád, - ale nemyslím si že je to opravdová konkurence pro klasickýho českýho pepíka, kterej je navyklej na to že všechno dostane v češtině a může si zajít na prodejnu když se mu to rozbije. "Specifickej trh" lol :)

You're right - without collective implementation capacity, diagnosing is performative.

But maybe if we understand why Nostr ossified so early, we could find a way to restore that capacity?

What's your read on why the cement dried so early?

Tak jasný, občas tam nějakej dobrej deal najdeš, zvláště u dražších věcí, páč si to naúčtujou u příslušenství :) Trošku dominujou místnímu trhu ... je škoda že neexistuje pořádná konkurence, která by držela na zemi, po tom co padlo czc

jj, to je super - pokud by to byl čistě krypto obchod, tak by se dalo pochopit že chtějí větší marži aby to uživili, ale tak to není. Tohle je jen využívání státních regulací a hranic a toho že v EU nemáme opravdu otevřený trh, aby našince pořádně podojili...

trošku OT, To jak Alza dokáže čechoslovákům prodávat o desítky procent předražené produkty - a ty jí to žerou - mě nikdy nepřestane udivovat. U nás za 170 eur, v německu za 130, lol

I'm not against conferences - I'm against conferences operating as top-down institutions that control narratives, curate speakers based on influence rather than substance, and function as businesses gatekeeping who gets heard instead of open spaces for builders to coordinate.