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Thoughts on Nostr? (drachennetz.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The past few days, I have been heavily experimenting with Nostr as another alternative to centralized services. And, I am honestly impressed by just how good it is. The protocol is quite simple and works very fast.

However, the almost constant bugging of the integration with idontcarecoins is a little annoying. Easy to ignore, but still always there.

What do you think about Nostr? Have you tried it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even more complicated than Mastodon and feels really janky. Seems like it's likely to always be niche. Also full of cryptobros whenever I've loaded it up again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spent a while there now. Yep, its Bitcoin, everywhere.

Though if you doomscroll long enough (heh), you MIGHT find someone worth following and reading. ...might.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is also Secure Scuttlebutt if you need extreme nomadicity

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/

https://github.com/ssbc

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/

It is basically very similar in concept, just without the baggage of inconvenience which comes with crypto coins.

But clients looks abandoned
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay
https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverse

So it might be considered as well as dead.

And there is also the DAT protocol, which again is assimilable to IPFS just without the coins, but it seems it really never took off, https://dat-ecosystem.org/

I guess coins scams is really what only can sustain these projects then :/