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Fiatjaf isn’t a maxi at all. He personally vocally supports the eCash fork with drivechains, which maxis hate. He opposes Lightning vocally as well. You’re barking up the wrong tree here. I agree completely that too much focus has been given to Lightning and zaps, as a result of Matt Odell coming along with Jack Dorsey’s money to shit up the place. I think we can absolutely do better. But maxis are like locusts who will move in and consume all the resources to make useless Bitcoin Ponzi schemes and VC bonfires and then move on. It’s up to the people that come after to till the land and make something good, and a ton of the people responsible for this situation have fucked off back to Twitter.
I opened nostr today for the first time in 3 years because of this. And I’m extremely disappointed at the state of things. This ecosystem could have been so great by now.
The devs behind nitter received a cease and desist from X. nitter is open source software that allows people to see posts on X without an account, without JavaScript, basically in private. If nostr wasn’t so Bitcoin maxi focused, it would be a good place for people disillusioned by X to come to.
Instead, Bitcoin maximalists like @npub1...jh6w6 have made sure nostr is mostly a place for Bitcoin maximalists, with tons of native features designed just for Bitcoin, with niche Bitcoin features only diehard maxis care about and will use.
Bitcoin maxis are great at fucking up good ideas.