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@silverpill Not being based on web standards is the biggest shame, but to be fair web standards are dreamed up by the utterly deranged. For example I spent two weekends straight just on HTTP Signatures despite the fact there was already a library that was supposed to make it “just work”. Meanwhile signing an event on Nostr took about 5 minutes to figure out. You’re right organizations don’t care about this, but developers will make superior software that organizations will want to use because it’s easier for them to develop faster.

Developer experience matters greatly. Part of the reason Mastodon FE sucks and Soapbox is good, is because you can point Soapbox to any live server and start hacking. On Mastodon you have to spin up a Rails environment.

Nostr doesn’t even need object validators or containment… everything is an Event which you can validate in 10 lines of code!