It will be a paradigm shift: The Community Network model.
Platforms have easy onboarding but are walled gardens destined to rot.
The current model of Nostr apps is Chaos As a Service, or a fallback to platform behavior with global services and hardcoded relays.
It's the right ingredients but not the right model. We can do better:
The missing layer is communities. Communities on nostr are neither tyranny nor chaos. If done well they are they cornerstones of a new way to exist on the internet.
They can provide essential infrastructure and they are the trusted entrypoint to nostr. Not a faceless app, and not a server. Leaders caring for their groups.
The network of these provides a distributed yet consistent system overall.
Not giant metropolitan cities and not weak scattered villages. City states.
More later.
quotingThe exodus from GitHub has begun.
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People are complaining: "Again, a platform that we used to build our reputation and discover new stuff and make high-stakes decisions has rugpulled us..."
But the people are looking for the next GitHub not realizing what it truly was:
- Hosting
- Team Collaboration
- Community - broader exploration and interactions beyond the team
The next "GitHub" should be separate services / apps / projects and sharing identities and important metadata formats.
Nostr has the most clean-cut separation and the best design long-term I believe.
But it makes all of these aspects their own marketplaces (and even more like CI) and those take a lot of time and effort to bootstrap.
Will #gitvianostr succeed?
I am not sure but in times like this we have a chance to take a step forward.