Critiques of decentralized protocols: "Anything built on Nostr relays is doomed." Questions about abandoning websockets: "Why would websockets be abandoned as a protocol?" References to alternatives and longevity: Delta Chat ("uses Email which will outlast every single protocol") and statements that "There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
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"There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
Not sure what you mean, but it uses email servers, but if you and your friends are online you use Iroh for realtime communications... So I am not sure, probably just maps email usernames to key pairs.
"There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
I am not saying abandoning it, if you find it useful use it. But imagine if every API is forced over Websockets and you can't make ephemeral request response with curl ... That is what Nostr is forcing people to do
"There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
Yup, I use my same scheme for file extension too: https://i.nostr.build/kgfxrBgytDVjNNrK.png (don't think this pic is the actual coded output, but you get the gist)
"There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
These profile colors, they are string-derived (npub) so other apps (like Wisp) show the exact same ones: https://i.nostr.build/9YTEZkQaNWlCYkH1.png And yes, that's designer nerd level 100, oops.
"There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
Anything built on Nostr relays is doomed. Why would I use a Matrix alternative that doesn't even offer me the reliability of Matrix, just for Identity that itself impossible to secure for anyone I would like to invite to talk to me? Come on. How on Earth did people think this is a good idea, hell we already have Delta Chat and that one uses Email which will outlast every single protocol mentioned in this conversation.
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"There are cases where you want a company behind a product. Not everything benefits from decentralization."
I agree… for some products, absolutely. But I think there's a distinction worth making. It's not about decentralising every product. It's about who owns the data underneath it. A company can build a great product on top of a protocol without owning or controlling the data that flows through it. That's not a weakness, it's a feature. The company adds value through the experience, the interface, the service. The user keeps ownership of what's theirs. The problem with the current model isn't that companies exist. It's that the data and the product are inseparable. Leave the platform, lose everything you've built there. Decentralisation isn't the goal… Ownership is. Companies that understand that will build better products, not worse ones.
