Folks: #Twitter is owned by a horrible new billionaire… Forget the #fediverse, let’s use #Bluesky & #Nostr by the billionaire who created Twitter instead.
Meanwhile…
‘When a Twitter user commented there was “not a chance the DNC allows him to be nominated,” Dorsey replied, "Even more reason.” He later added that the DNC “seems more irrelevant by the day” and wrote “end of an empire,” to which Tesla CEO and current Twitter owner Elon Musk replied with two fire emoji.’
Yeah I've been doing a lot of background reading about both #Bluesky and #Nostr and a lot of people are -- deliberately or not -- skating right on by what's going on there
Dear #infosec community. How come we use Mastodon and not Nostr? I find it a little odd because, technically speaking, Nostr is way more interesting, don't you agree? User experience is great on Mastodon (talking elk.zone) though - and the crowd is better (in my bubble anyway). What's your take on Mastodon v Nostr? Genuinely interested in your opinions
@marcchehab No one really talks about #Nostr other than to lambast it as a place crypto bros hang out (and for us infosec folk that unfortunately doesn’t mean cryptography bros 😜). Whether that’s true or not I don’t know. I got on Nostr but didn’t spend much time trying to network (yet). There was a big push to Mastodon and fortunately @jerry had a welcoming, well-run spot perfect for the infosec community diaspora to land. So I give partial credit to the fact that Mastodon was more “talked about” / marketed by tech media and Jerry’s excellent stewardship.
Nostr: A simple, decentralised, open protocol that enables a truly censorship-resistant and global social network
Nostr (acronym for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is a protocol that connects clients via relays to exchanges notes (posts). Anyone can run a relay if they wish. A user is identified by a public key (not an e-mail address, user ID or phone numbe ...continues
The protocol itself is probably okay, and there are lots of clients to choose from. With a self-hosted relay nostr could be useful for an interest group, a community, or a group of friends.
However, when I just keep the default relays in a given client, all I see is a large number of crypto fanbois posting their bitcoin lightning address in the hope that someone will throw a few satoshis their way.
I hope I have just been unfortunate during my many visits, but what I saw was not something I would like to see on a daily basis.
@kas yes I've been on #Nostr for a day. There are some really good AI bots that fooled me at first (well, I think they were AI).
Yes, there is an under (0ver?) current of crypto, so I'll be seeing how to keep my feed as clean as possible with that. That is a risk on any network depending on how well blocking or filtering works (along with anything else you really don't want to see).
So I'm going to give it a few days and see how it goes.
Took a quick peek at #nostr to see what’s going on over there. First post was the main developer saying:
“I cannot understand why people love animals so much they want them living inside their houses.”
My brother in christ, if you have this much trouble relating to such basic human behaviour, maybe you’re not the perfect person to make design decisions that affect an entire social network lmao
@chrismessina@Sarahp@mike Ayo this is CRAZY. I've been hoping that we'd get "universal" clients that let people use the #Fediverse and #Bluesky at the same time. I didn't know we'd get such a client so soon.
The only thing it's missing is #nostr support and then it'd be perfect
@Sarahp@chrismessina@mike I do think there'd be some utility in universal support for these various decentralized platforms, whether that means a new client lets you log into the #Fediverse, #Bluesky, and #Nostr, or existing clients graft in support for the other protocols.
answer: not very hard as long as admins keep leaving their federated timelines open
you'd want to base this on regular periodic timeline sampling so that instances that defederate will automatically drop off the blocklist after a week or whatever
"Also ich hab ja schon viele Geisterstaedte erlebt, aber nach dem ersten Mini-Momentum von Bluesky ist das ja bisher hier so eher ein vertrocknetes Wasserloch in der Wueste Gobi.
Auch die klassischen early adopter Blasen haben offenbar ein Schweigegeluebde abgelegt"
Still tweaking this metaphor but what do folks think? Open to improve.
The #Fediverse is similar to a small colony of collected towns, just formed counties, roadways, governance, and security. Lots of factions but we're all learning to live together, & just had a massive influx of new residents, 3/4ths of the population is brand new. Not everything works great, but it all works, and room to improve is limitless.
If it scaled to this, it likely could scale far, far greater.
@rabble So I'm putting together data for the next #TwitterMigration report... is nostr.band still the best source for #Nostr usage, an is there any consensus as to a way to separate spam accounts from more authentic ones on #Nostr? Any other key #Nostr events I should be sure to include in terms of app launches or other?