Mark wrote:
Completely agree there Ivan, having some sort of barrier to entry is a good thing, especially when you're the one on the receiving end of a lot of nonsense and bs that the public doesn't see. True that, on targeting the mind.
With all due respect, I don't gatekeeping reticulum, which becomes more powerful as a concept the more people use it, simply because of a few bad apples, is a good idea. I understand having attention and having people scream at your face every day is fucking tough, I've dealt with this before, but that should prevent people from taking real utility at something that I believe could be useful and powerful. The "negative" attention you speak of eventually nurtures into something time and effort, but not if you have a jaded attitude and try to tear it down.
If you can't personally deal with that and want to be left alone, that's fine, nobody would blame you for that. If you just want to have some trusted people occasionally send you emails about anything important for your mental health, that's fine. If you want to ignore everything random people send you, that's fine, their not entitled to your brain cause they send you something.
Now here's my 2 month lurker opinion that I'm trying to be genuine with but I may be entirely wrong about. I think you've made yourself the main failure point for this project and I see your name being thrown around more frequently than reticulum itself. if anything breaks, if there's any issues, you end up being the person solely responsible, having to do every little chore and respond to every little critic and have to implement every single feature is obviously gonna wear you down like it has. You make yourself responsible problem and every ill-written app based on reticulum if it's actually your responsibility or not, Humans are not built for that stuff. You cannot truly back away because for better or for worse you might the only person who actually understands the entire codebase and edit it, and pawning off your own health is the only to get things done. Micromanaging everything just doesn't work for you. But you just don't have to do that anymore if you don't want to.
in my uninformed opinion the main thing lacking from reticulum is the documentation (be it of the implementation and how to build ontop of it), it's not impossible right now, but functionality of how the network works already took me a few weeks to understand (some examples would have been nice), making things harder by not really having any good starting places to make software, well, that's how you get people vibe coding entire programs. Plus it's a good force multiplier, you answering a common issue once prevents you from having to answer it 100 times and lets 10000 people build on top of it. The main domain of stuff that needs doing is software to built on top of the protocol to give it real utility. Hell I mentioned wanting to write in the wiki earlier because I see that as a big issue, that no matter how cool and resistant the protocol is, if it takes 5 months to build anything, nobody will ever use it. But I want it to be used, I want to build stuff on top of it because I think it's neat, I think it's good software and I think I could actually help people one way or another. Wanting a higher barrier of access is the exact opposite of this, it doesn't bring less "negative" attention, it just snuffs out the "good" attention that could have turned into something great.
I'm sorry people made you feel this way about reticulum. There's not much else I can say.
