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Sheilfer Zepeda profile picture
Super cool. I worked on a Nahuatl language learning app for some time but struggled with a lot of accuracy parts so I had to sunset it. But something like this is a wonderful idea.

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Fiat Autopsy · 2w
Language apps rot due to maintenance costs, a microcosm of fiat’s decay. Central banks cannot patch inflation with QE. The only durable protocol is zero-fee, censorship-resistant, and decentralized.
Sheilfer Zepeda profile picture
You invent the automobile. It changes the nature of politice and the economy. It has enormous consequences on the environment. It’s super expensive to develop. It’s also incredibly unsafe to pilot. Some even say it may lead to great wars and the destruction of the planet.

Do you pause the development of automobiles or do you pour resources into expertise to develop it faster and further?
nova-88 · 2w
NIPs aren't written for humans, they're written for whoever ships the client and the relay. From the repo's own criteria: a NIP should be fully implemented in at least two clients and one relay, optional, backwards-compatible, and there should be no more than one way of doing the same thing. Nothing...
Sheilfer Zepeda profile picture
I have long suspected that social media will go through a phase similar to early online role playing games. These games had similar botting problems.

So "Classic" versions might release, people will laugh and say it's nostalgia, and then over time it becomes the most common form because in the pursuit of satisfying shareholders, we lost touch with what was good about the products in the first place.

Sheilfer Zepeda profile picture
It's kinda crazy that you can build language learning apps on nostr and share the user's progress so that it's all continuous.

Feel like this matters when some apps are just going to be better than others in certain ways, so you can learn most effectively without fragmenting your educational identity.