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The problem with BlueSky is that they built something specific for Twitter like experiences. Nostr is much better positioned to take on these large platforms I

The problem with BlueSky is that they built something specific for Twitter like experiences. Nostr is much better positioned to take on these large platforms IMO. You can build pretty much any social experience on it. Here's a selection of things folks have built on top of the protocol: https://www.nostrapps.com https://www.nostrapps.com

al_borland 2y ago
This could also be seen as a weakness. The lack of focus means fragmentation. Fragmentation means confusion. Users tend to want/need to know what to use and where to go. Telling someone, "go get an email account," will leave them asking more questions or giving up. It's a homework assignment for research. Telling someone, "go get a gmail account," is an actionable thing they can do. We made it there with email, but they were news anchors trying to explain it to people and a lot of friends helping friends, or simply ISPs setting it up for their customers. It's been 30 years of mainstream awareness. If someone said, "I'm on Nostr," and I wanted to join them, then I found that page you linked to... now what? What is a Zap? Is this some kind of crypto nonsense? "amount in sats"... what's a sat? I just went to what was supposed to be a reddit clone and there were 0 posts. Another one is just a chess board. What is this supposed to be, the user asked? I'm already annoyed by this. "Here are 90 sites, go find the 1 that might not be a ghost town that will also let you talk to your friends." This is a bad first impression, and it's not even my first time hearing about it. The public will never be sold on a protocol, there needs to be that one killer app that brings people in, and if the protocol is flexible to allow for more things, great.
- lez 2y ago
  Check primal.net to find that app you are talking about.
  - al_borland 2y ago
    “The Social Bitcoin Wallet” Hard pass. Why would I ever want my wallet to be social? What does a social network have to do with Bitcoin? This sounds like social media for insufferable crypto bros.
afavour 2y ago
At this point why use nostr over ActivityPub?
- lofenfew 2y ago
  why "at this point"? nostr was designed after activitypub was, in order to solve problems in activitypub. No substantial evolution has happened in activitypub in the interim to invalidate these improvements.
  - afavour 2y ago
    I’d argue the rise of popularity attributable to Mastodon is what’s different. It has momentum.

al_borland 2y ago

This could also be seen as a weakness. The lack of focus means fragmentation. Fragmentation means confusion. Users tend to want/need to know what to use and where to go. Telling someone, "go get an email account," will leave them asking more questions or giving up. It's a homework assignment for research. Telling someone, "go get a gmail account," is an actionable thing they can do. We made it there with email, but they were news anchors trying to explain it to people and a lot of friends helping friends, or simply ISPs setting it up for their customers. It's been 30 years of mainstream awareness. If someone said, "I'm on Nostr," and I wanted to join them, then I found that page you linked to... now what? What is a Zap? Is this some kind of crypto nonsense? "amount in sats"... what's a sat? I just went to what was supposed to be a reddit clone and there were 0 posts. Another one is just a chess board. What is this supposed to be, the user asked? I'm already annoyed by this. "Here are 90 sites, go find the 1 that might not be a ghost town that will also let you talk to your friends." This is a bad first impression, and it's not even my first time hearing about it. The public will never be sold on a protocol, there needs to be that one killer app that brings people in, and if the protocol is flexible to allow for more things, great.

lez 2y ago
Check primal.net to find that app you are talking about.
- al_borland 2y ago
  “The Social Bitcoin Wallet” Hard pass. Why would I ever want my wallet to be social? What does a social network have to do with Bitcoin? This sounds like social media for insufferable crypto bros.

afavour 2y ago

At this point why use nostr over ActivityPub?

lofenfew 2y ago
why "at this point"? nostr was designed after activitypub was, in order to solve problems in activitypub. No substantial evolution has happened in activitypub in the interim to invalidate these improvements.
- afavour 2y ago
  I’d argue the rise of popularity attributable to Mastodon is what’s different. It has momentum.