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by fiatjaf 3y ago
You have nailed it. Bluesky weirdly tries to omit that as much as they can, but they do admit in their protocol descriptions that everything goes through and depends on a central server with absolute power. They also mention that anyone can
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
What is the point of hosting your own data? You don't gain anything from that, right?
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Show HN: Nak, a command line tool for doing all things Nostr(github.com)
2 points by fiatjaf 3y ago|0 comments
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
OK, I watched the video now. This is amazing.
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
Would be nice to see some screenshots because I am on the phone and now I am very curious to reach for my computer but can't.
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
The readme mentions performance, but where are the performance numbers?
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
In theory you can migrate between BGSes, but you can always just use one at any point in time. In practice no one will switch because it makes no sense to do it. If there happen to ever be more than one real BGS contender, it will be from s
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The Nostr Protocol Explained [video](youtube.com)
1 points by fiatjaf 3y ago|0 comments
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
https://zebedee.io/ does the same, regulation-compliant too, not US-only, easier and cheaper.
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Twitch-like social streaming on Nostr(live.snort.social)
2 points by fiatjaf 3y ago|0 comments
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
That's what Nostr is designed to fix: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
You are basically describing Nostr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssNkOMx2E5Y
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by fiatjaf 3y ago
This is wrong: 1. even average people do appreciate the fact that the thing is an open protocol, even if they do not comment about it or understand it or seem to care. 2. average people do follow some leaders when deciding where to move, an
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Uncle Bob's short introduction to Nostr(youtube.com)
1 points by fiatjaf 3y ago|0 comments
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Uncle Bob's video guide to his more-speech Nostr client(youtube.com)
1 points by fiatjaf 3y ago|0 comments
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Twitter co-founder Rabble talks the future of social media(youtube.com)
2 points by fiatjaf 3y ago|0 comments
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
I agree with that. I've voiced these same concerns with the "big replacement" mentality and suggested that things are made out of small building blocks.
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
ENS can definitely be used. The DNS thing is just one hacky way to put meaningful names on keys, but other hacky ways are not excluded.
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
Nostr relays can and should moderate content. You can craft your own set of relays that do not tolerate bad things and use just these.
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
What would we gain by doing that?
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
Where is secp256k1, the most important curve in the history of cryptography and the one most used by real-world money applications in the world today?
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
The problem with RSS is that to join the social media you need a server and normal people will never host servers. Even tech people don't like to host servers (see how many DBaaS and PaaS and hosted offerings of open-source server soft
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
Check your blood B12 vitamin. Make sure you're at least that triple of the recommended minimum levels. Take 10000mcg suplements if necessary. There is no risk of overdose.
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
I think you may be confused because you decided to rely on this loose concept of "semi-decentralization". IRC providers may use multiple servers, but that doesn't mean decentralization. They are closed networks, not very diff
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
Recommendation: https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr literally says "it is not P2P".
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
Of course they won't add anything, and if they add no one is going to implement. Mastodon, Pleroma et al. are not really ActivityPub implementations. Each of the fediverse clients implement some random 10% of AP and just try to get com
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
I don't know about KaZaA but I remember it was very popular for a time, so it might have done some things right? What was its fate? Was it censored to death? And I disagree very much that IRC is "semi-decentralized". IRC is c
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
How do you discover users to follow on Twitter? I doubt anyone has ever been successful into signing up on any social platform and just followed the big names that are suggested automatically at the beginning or based on some "key inte
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by fiatjaf 4y ago
How can you rotate that? No one knows the second key is related to the first. You still need to publish your second key somewhere along with an invalidation certificate for the first key.

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