"It's coming from inside the house." Many nostr devs aren't going to stop the botslop when they are the ones botslopping and gooning for the AI fantasy. No market forces, no mission, just larp. Nostr will remain an obscure playground for in-clique developers or be captured and commandeered by shitcoinery unless it gets a stronger sense of purpose.
I personally enjoy it here and love many of the people and the tech, but I've seen a lot of promising things die on the vine and I hope that doesn't happen again. The world could actually use what nostr could actually be.
I tried to engage with with devs on the bot problem realistically some months ago and got nothing but cold shoulders. I understood why when they all started creaming about clawd and bot swarming their own users.
Se la vie, I guess.
Zsubmariner
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2026-03-18 00:23:12 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…cc7d
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2026-03-18 00:23:12 UTCEvent JSON
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