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Jack still trying to make Nostr relevant in 2026
by kinakomochidayo 2mo ago
Jack still trying to make Nostr relevant in 2026
- vaylian 2mo agoI also wonder how Nostr is useful here. The central idea of Nostr is that it's a lot harder to deplatform people, because a user can publish to several independent relays. Buzz is self-hostable, which removes the risk of deplatforming.
- tlongwell-block 2mo agoYou may want to participate in multiple communities hosted by different people, but with the same identity everywhere. Provably you to anyone that reads your messages.
- andunie 2mo agoWhy not use Nostr? Why come up with something else entirely that would be just a worse version of Nostr at best?
- vaylian 2mo agoHonestly: I don't get what the benefit of Nostr is for this use-case.
- andunie 2mo agoInitially I didn't see much benefit either, my point was just that there would have to be some interface that the client and server would have to speak, right? So why not Nostr? Why invent a new one? It could not benefit anyone, but also wouldn't hurt. Later some actual advantages came to my mind, as I was writing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022183 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022183
- pizzafeelsright 2mo agoNostr is a good protocol but Jack (i hope you read this) the real power comes from simplicity. I assume Jack has money. I do not understand why building a product is the goal when the platform is where the communication transformation is needed. nostr needs a type of simple dns for keys. Jack would understand.