hodlbod on Nostr: This coming year my wife is going to teach elementary science at our local homeschool ...

This coming year my wife is going to teach elementary science at our local homeschool coop. All the science teachers are immediately proposing different ways to interact with nature: my wife wants to bring in live animals for the kids to see; another teacher wants to do dissections; another teacher wants to... cook and eat every animal they study.

It struck me that even though all these people have completely different approaches to the problem, there's one driving force that keeps them together: the institution which provides the obligation for them to cooperate. If that didn't exist, they would all go their own way and do their own thing. And, odds are, they wouldn't do any of it because they would be working by themselves.

Nostr developers don't have this, and we need it. There's no single driving force that forces us to cooperate. This force can't be internal either; it has to come from outside. I'm glad to see more organizations popping up — this is something that has been missing from nostr's political landscape.

If I were any good at this sort of thing, I would start something with a specific mission and scope. If you have that skill set, I encourage you to think about it. This kind of org can be anything from stewarding a particular part of the protocol like "groups", to sourcing funding for public infrastructure. I think a lot of devs would be glad to row together with a team if it meant their vision could be part of something bigger and more stable. We don't have to give up on the stuff that gets us excited about nostr; we just have to fit it into a bigger whole.