The past few days, I have been heavily experimenting with Nostr as another alternative to centralized services. And, I am honestly impressed by just how good it is. The protocol is quite simple and works very fast.
However, the almost constant bugging of the integration with idontcarecoins is a little annoying. Easy to ignore, but still always there.
What do you think about Nostr? Have you tried it?
This is the first I’m hearing of it. What function does it serve? I mean, what kind of social media platform is it? Do you follow topics, or people? Or both? Is it for sharing images or text or…? I did a brief review of the Nostr website, but will admit I didn’t dig too deep.
Here’s a brief: Instead of tweeting to one server, you tweet to many. When you and another person share the same server, they see you. Those servers (relays) can also be broadcasting your messages to other relays, so you might end up indirectly sharing servers as well. Because there are so many servers that potentially sync data, it is supposed to be “uncensorable”. Each user is identified by a public key, and signs their message with a private key.
As for the SN aspect; you follow people. Hence the Twitter comparison.
Now what I did not mention on purpose: You can do microtransactions in bitcoins. And if you read that and thought “oh god no” - then yeah, exactly. xD
Even more complicated than Mastodon and feels really janky. Seems like it’s likely to always be niche. Also full of cryptobros whenever I’ve loaded it up again.
