npub1t6…vksrw on Nostr: One of the cool yet wonky things about Nostr is how depending on what it is you are ...

One of the cool yet wonky things about Nostr is how depending on what it is you are doing, location/server/relay matters or does not matter, and sometimes sort of at the same time.

Let look at the current web. Lets say there is a news article about a new type of fruit that is discovered in the jungle somewhere. People share the link (or screenshots but there is a special place in hell for screenshot-of-news-articles-posters so lets ignore those for a second) in all sorts of places, be that in the comment section of the news site itself, on the-X-platform, on subreddits, forums, discord channels, telegram groups etc. A conversations about this new fruit happen all over the internet, among different groups of people. Biologists talk about it from their perspective, Chefs speculate on new recipes, environmentalists worried humanity will cut down the jungle in search for more of this fruit, Allergy-support-groups depressed that there is another thing they will probably miss out on....and so forth.

All these conversations are public, but isolated on their own servers, enjoying their own moderation to enforce and align with their preferred context (Biologists talking about biology, Chefs talking about cooking etc.). With Nostr, you can throw out a query looking for anything that replied to that particular news article. Normally the result will be twitter-like, giving you all sorts of individuals with their comments and branching threads.
But if you happen to include the relays where these ''contextualized conversations'' are happening, you can get those as well. All the sudden, you don't just get access to how individuals view a thing like this news article, but how different groups talk about it as well.

What makes this possible is that even-through this stuff is on separate relays, just like all of this is on separate servers today, that's the only thing that separates these posts; the profiles/ID's/''''accounts''''', that are used, as well as the underlying data-structure constituting the conversation and for good measure the interface with all these different relays, are all complying with the open protocol, and whatever app can be used to interface with it. In the legacy web, things are not just separated by location/server, but by different account types, data-types, and above all apps as a result.

Now i am not the UI/UX-for-the-normies-guy, and let those that are figure out what is a sensible way of displaying all of this, but to think you can shove ''Nostr'' as such under the rug as to hide it is a dead end. Lean into it, start to leverage all the possibilities that Nostr provides as a reason for people to understand.

Nostr.