mleku on Nostr: there is nothing intrinsic in nostr that forces anyone to be in the same pool either, ...
there is nothing intrinsic in nostr that forces anyone to be in the same pool either, that's just because all the clients are built by bitcoiners that the main subjects on most of the relays is bitcoin and nostr
nothing is stopping anyone from coming along and making a shiny new client and throwing a bunch of advanced relays up and running a corporate nostr island that is in fact entirely isolated
they aren't doing it because they are stupid, not because we are a bad beta testing cohort for a protocol being built on a shoestring
POP and SMTP and IMAP were mostly designed and built by postgrads with scholarships or as part of their PhDs or whatever
the only reason google and facebook took over the internet was because the US government covertly funded it with ever increasing tax money as a part of an endless budget of surveillance capitalism, this is not the way we want to be going and history says that such efforts always end in failure because they are not market driven, no matter how much VC capital you have, you just aren't going to sell fidget spinners forever, eventually the novelty wears off
nothing is stopping anyone from coming along and making a shiny new client and throwing a bunch of advanced relays up and running a corporate nostr island that is in fact entirely isolated
they aren't doing it because they are stupid, not because we are a bad beta testing cohort for a protocol being built on a shoestring
POP and SMTP and IMAP were mostly designed and built by postgrads with scholarships or as part of their PhDs or whatever
the only reason google and facebook took over the internet was because the US government covertly funded it with ever increasing tax money as a part of an endless budget of surveillance capitalism, this is not the way we want to be going and history says that such efforts always end in failure because they are not market driven, no matter how much VC capital you have, you just aren't going to sell fidget spinners forever, eventually the novelty wears off