• BrikoXOPM
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      9 months ago

      https://nostr.com

      Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media.

      It’s a more extreme version of ActivityPub that is more technical and less user-friendly.

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        9 months ago

        Okay well if it’s on ActivityPub I can track it thru Misskey or whatever, cool beans.

        Just curious if it was some other more corporate walled off shit like bsky.app. Or if there is any beef community wise lol

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      9 months ago

      While ActivityPub is a way for social media instances/server to ask for a user feed or do updates (likes, comments, etc.), Nostr is a media format and more client-side protocol.

      ActivityPub. Servers talk to each other, users are talking with servers in different language, like Mastodon talking Mastodon API. Users log in to their servers and have an ID there. 1000001369

      Nostr. Users have ID for themselfs, servers only act as a proxies to deliver a message, feeds are stored on devices, account do not live on any single place. Both users need to have at least one server common for each other to see their feed. 1000001370

      Honestly I think while ActivityPub is a nice glue, Nostr is already obsolete. In my opinion problems that Nostr is trying to solve should not be dealed with making an Peer2Peer social media app, but rather with universal P2P network. Decentralized networks like Yggdrasil or I2P do anything Nostr can do and are not limited to only posts, but can deliver any data just like the Internet. I host my own Minecraft server on Yggdrasil for example.