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@ Joe working on B2B
2025-05-13 14:23:14
This is what they said on repeat at SSB., which at the time had 30k daily actives spread over multiple clients and felt like it was the future (somehow, kinda).
-SSB is a protocol, it can never go away...
-As long as we the founding community are here...
-Give it time...
-Rome isn't built in a day...
The immortal protocol fallacy.
And where is SSB now? It's in a vegetative state, for all intents and purposes.
The easy swat-away is to say "oh well SSB was crap and Nostr isn't". But SSB is one of many such examples from many protocol areas. Most protocols don't make it, that's just how it is. ATProto, Nostr, Farcaster, Holepunch, Pubky, they all claim to be the future (Farcaster people talk *exactly* like Nostr people sometimes, almost verbatim) but they all won't be here in 5 years, or at least here in a non-vegetative state. Laws of nature.
Nostr needs users—a lot of users—and revenue, and soon. Just keep building will be the end of Nostr if we're not building the right things, or building too many things, or building at the expense of fixing.
So nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj76twvfhhstnp0faxzmt09ehx2ap0qy28wumn8ghj76n9d3k8jenfwd5zumrpdejqqg84yl8ewr8zvrn5ycfpf0mp968htfvakxp4a4lyq5ejdslktc3jacw7kzg6 I for one applaud your quote-unquote screeching; I sense it's from the heart and a dose of what Nostr needs to get to better health.