Why I’m betting on Nostr
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Why I’m betting on Nostr
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Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#2I was playing around with it a few months ago and set up a relay for fun (https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/taking-a-look-at-nostr/). I found it to be a very nice starting point if you want to follow how a protocol is being developed as it's all very transparent, simple and easy to follow here:
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
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#4For all the talk about nostr, I recently discovered it's actually a tenth of the size of mastodon[0].
The hype-to-actual-activity is through the rough with this one.
[0] https://datum.alwaysdata.net/?explorer_view=quest&quest_id=q...
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#5as a dev and nostr user, here’s my elevator pitch:
everything is an event. events are signed using pki so it’s easy to know who sent the event and it’s authentic. they’re human readable json objects. events flow over websockets so it’s “real time”. you can build literally anything on this platform - listen for a type of event, do something, emit another. it can all interoperable. we started with basic twitter clones but are rapidly moving into uncharted territory - people are building music distribution apps, ai agents, and so on. and the entire ecosystem has native, programmatic payments built on bitcoin’s lightning network.
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#6The number of users is almost irrelevant in the context of Nostr because many clients generate a new ID. These aren't email-verified/phone-verified users -- this is literally just a new key/ID being generated.
Some web apps auto-create a new ID and join the network every time you use them.
Also, the signal to noise ratio is really bad with a lot of spam and almost all discussions related in some way to crypto.
Nostr has potential as a technology but the current demographic is basically a social network full of crypto fans.
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#7Why is an article from December 2022 on the front page of HN?
Nostr has moved quite a bit since this article was written. The most obvious being that it says to try Damus from test flight (it went GA like half a year ago).
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#8The number of users is almost irrelevant in the context of Nostr because many clients generate a new ID. These aren't email-verified/phone-verified users -- this is literally just a new key/ID being generated. Some web apps auto-create a new ID and join the network every time you use them. Also, the signal to noise ratio is really bad with a lot of spam and almost all discussions related in some way to crypto. Nostr…
And even then most of the discussion are very shallow compared to crypto twitter. I can't understand why. I would've thought since it's early adopters, discussion inside a tightly knit group would be more meaningful... alas
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#9The number of users is almost irrelevant in the context of Nostr because many clients generate a new ID. These aren't email-verified/phone-verified users -- this is literally just a new key/ID being generated. Some web apps auto-create a new ID and join the network every time you use them. Also, the signal to noise ratio is really bad with a lot of spam and almost all discussions related in some way to crypto. Nostr…
And even then most of the discussion are very shallow compared to crypto twitter. I can't understand why. I would've thought since it's early adopters, discussion inside a tightly knit group would be more meaningful... alas
Crypto scammers are the new discount viagra.
Nostr and services like it have a place but they are not going to replace services that have meaningful anti-spam.
Re: Why I’m betting on Nostr
#10For all the talk about nostr, I recently discovered it's actually a tenth of the size of mastodon[0]. The hype-to-actual-activity is through the rough with this one. [0] https://datum.alwaysdata.net/?explorer_view=quest&quest_id=q...
That's actually quite impressive, considering that Mastodon is both talked about much wider, and is easier to use.