> Nostr is nice but a bit stuck being a crypto block chain thingy for people who are really into that Just to be clear, nostr doesn't directly require the bloc

> Nostr is nice but a bit stuck being a crypto block chain thingy for people who are really into that Just to be clear, nostr doesn't directly require the blockchain for anything. It has a nice integration with lightning payments, but that's optional. > Bluesky is mainly a thing that people talk about rather than join. And it has the Twitter founder backing it Pretty sure that's not really true anymore. Jack Dorsey has apparently moved on to nostr, interestingly enough. > IMHO mastodon with signed content and per user key pairs would make a lot of sense and it should not be that hard to add it. Why is this not a thing? There's some work in this area[0], but I agree it's surprising this wasn't baked into the protocol from the beginning. Same thing with signed requests. Things have de facto evolved in that directly, but we seem stuck at a local optima using a 5yo version of the HTTP signatures spec (see discussion here[1]), which is really confusing for new implementors as well. Ultimately I think a lot has been learned from implementing ActivityPub in the wild, but I feel it badly needs a version 2.0, and even then I'm not convinced all the most important lessons have been learned yet. For example, it's very concerning to me that Mastodon still doesn't provide an easy way to bring your own domain to any instance. [0]: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/8b32/fep-8b32.md https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/8b32/... [1]: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/state-of-http-signatures/754/25?page=2 https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/state-of-http-signatur...