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Nostr can be thought of as an open, decentralized, censorship resistant messaging layer with a built-in micro payments system. Regarding why this might be usef
by jgilias 3y ago
Nostr can be thought of as an open, decentralized, censorship resistant messaging layer with a built-in micro payments system.
Regarding why this might be useful. Remember when youtube-dl got taken down from GitHub? I think it’s now back after all the outcry. But the point stands, if you develop something that someone powerful might not like, a Nostr based git solution for that might make sense.
- throwaway290 3y agoOr, you know, just email the patches.
- jgilias 3y agoThat’s a fair point. In the current iteration there’s not much functional difference. The vision though would be to build something that feels a lot like one of the centralized git services, just built on top of Nostr. So, it’d be some kind of a frontend that you may be able to run yourself if it’s open source which you could point to a set of relays to get the ‘git notes’ from. Couple this with the integrated payments functionality, and I think it becomes an interesting proposition. If I recall correctly some time ago Jack Dorsey pledged some amount of BTC to make that a reality.