Despite being extremely early days for Nostr, it’s already shown incredible promise, not unlike what the early internet or Bitcoin did. Like both, i

Nostr: Social as a Service

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2024-09-30 18:30:06

Despite being extremely early days for Nostr, it’s already shown incredible promise, not unlike what the early internet or Bitcoin did.

Like both, it is technically imperfect, but it’s also composable, extensible, simple, scalable and most importantly it has captured the interest and imagination of brilliant engineers from all over the world. It has the early momentum necessary for a STANDARD to develop.

Right now we’re still in the “x” for Nostr stage, meaning the taking of something existing and putting it on Nostr. The standout app over the last 12mths was Damus. It showed that you could build a twitter-like experience on Nostr, while allowing the users ownership of their identity and interacting with a social graph that lived at the protocol layer — and not with the platform itself (Damus, in this case).

With the support of Jack Dorsey, we had the first real wave of people come across, and discover something unique and special (and many have remained).