<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>VitorPamplona wrote</title><author_name>VitorPamplona (npub1gc…fnj5z)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>In every Nostr project, there is this moment when the dev realizes that Nostr&#39;s decentralization is quite a burden and the project could be faster, simpler, and better if it didn&#39;t use Nostr at all. The dev then starts to drift away from Nostr into their own protocol spec, just to realize that they are now alone—the single user of a new protocol/platform—and most of the benefits of a decentralized social layer are gone.&#xA;&#xA;It&#39;s weird how much we underestimate the social benefits of Nostr in exchange for minor engineering benefits in our own projects.</html></oembed>