wrote this to a twitter friend about a month ago...
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this next period - year or two or three - is going to be interesting. I think that either bluesky or nostr is going to win the decentralized internet. Bluesky has a far better thought-out technical model, but the way they are developing it (which may well be required in order to have such a tight model) is totally choking any real energy which is absolutely necessary to get people to care.
nostr on the other hand is total chaotic wild west. It has massive juice in the developer community and a tribally passionate userbase is building daily. But there are so many fundamental scalability problems with the protocol that it really seems likely (to me) that at some point it will hit a threshold number of users and the whole thing will fall apart and the only way to make it work then will be to tear it all apart and sort of start over from scratch with fundamental changes. Which may or may not kill all that positive energy.
if the bluesky people are smart enough, they will soon throw the doors wide open and allow the same kind of wild west atmosphere to happen with their protocol that is currently happening with nostr. It would start a total war (in a good way) because the nostr people are totally tribal. I'm sure they will very soon start calling bluesky a "shitcoin". but i don't know if the bluesky team are going to be willing to let go of what they created, and if they try to hold on to it, they will never have a prayer of catching up to the energy in nostr.
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2023-04-12 14:26:29
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2023-04-12 14:26:29Event JSON
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