Nostr has always been about crossing bridges. I've seen it time and time again over the last 3½ years. Features get built or don't as issues arise. From spam to hellthreads to zaps to use cases nobody thought of until they were staring us in the face. Protections got built because they had to be, not because someone planned them in a roadmap meeting.
Developers were always just building. Trying things. Testing things. Not overengineering. Not smoothing out every edge until it actually mattered. (Which is sometimes annoying to users 😂 Wen GIF search?)
I've said it before and I'll say it again: our devs love to fix problems, but they also operate under the mindset of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." Don't touch it until there's a real, glaring issue. And that's not laziness. Don't mistake it for that. It's more so discipline.
Everything on Nostr is ultimately an engineering problem. Given enough autism 😂 and enough free will, I think we can solve damn near anything we put our minds to.
The amount of brain power on Nostr is incredible. Keep building.
Derek Ross
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