Yes, I built nosdav because I…

Yes, I built nosdav because I want to use it myself

Remember I built Solid before that. The issue with solid is that the pub/sub over websockets had a bug. So my realtime chat app was not working across domains. Even though I fixed the bug for several years, it did not get prioritized upstream.

So I decided to use nostr instead. And we built nostr up to be bigger than Solid. To give you an idea, it took me one full year working 24/7 to onboard 1-2 developers to solid. In nostr there are 100s. Because it is simple. Solid started simple, but academics came in and made it more complex. Now its hard to get any non-academic developers there.

Nosdav is something I want to use. So I'm simply porting all the best parts from solid to nostr. I can only do it one peice at a time as solid was many years of work from dozens of people.

I like taproot and schnorr (in fact solid is implementing them now) because it makes it easier to integrate with a world class open source payment system. I always wanted that for solid, I even started a project called solidpay but it didnt catch on. Addionally we tried lorea before to be social + payments with pablo and amir. Amir then came to bitcoin and made the BIP system. So it's all been one long journey to get to nostr.

Now we have nostr, it's brilliant. I love it. It's everything I wanted and knew was possible. Porting the things I like such as personal storage and micro apps isnt going to be that hard. And it's going to be good enough for 99.99% of users and have great utility. It'll be better than apple and google at least. There's also tons of use cases that fit the nostr eco system. Because relays were not designed for long term storage, they were designed to relay messages from one user to another.