The best thing by far about Nostr is that you can just do what you want without asking anybody's permission. "Governance" sounds like the opposite of that.
If people just want to coordinate then all good, but if it starts to resemble anything like "compliance" then count me out. I, and many others like me, simply will not comply. We'll continue to use the free and open version of the protocol.
The best way to evolve protocols is by building what you need and then documenting the patterns that emerge from wider adoption. If nobody adopts an idea it's probably because it was bad or you didn't market it well enough. "Governance" is simply a mechanism for forcing bad ideas on people.
Maybe fiatjaf (nprofile…va2x) was right and the NIPs repo needs to deleted lol.
/ mccrmx
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2026-07-05 15:20:10 GMT
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