Why I’m betting on Nostr

Post by unboxingelf » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 3:35 PM UTC

3np wrote: post #143

unboxingelf wrote: post #27

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They do not have to, but they risk being slashed if they add transactions that are not “correct” as per the network. The link I provided shows this coercion via OFAC compliance.

No, your link shows that a majority of validators will not include certain transactions in a block. While problematic in itself, there is nothing around slashing other validators who do so, on their allotted blocks. Technically you can still obtain 32 ETH on the market, permissionlessly set up your own beacon-, validator- and execution clients and wait until it's your go to send out txes.

Post by unboxingelf » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 6:04 PM UTC

BoorishBears wrote: post #152

unboxingelf wrote: post #145

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It certainly is for some. You are correct - it allows consumers to know the message has not been tampered. The downside of your trust model is permission. Facebook and Twitter may revoke your permission to use “your” identity at any time, for any reason. Requiring ID verification for a rented online identity is a terrible trend imo. These companies are not to be trusted - they exploit users and inevitably sell your d…

Your system is so poorly secured there is no value in tampering with the message: I can just say I'm you and tweet. A tweet is not a direct message, it's a broadcast message. Without a centralized 3rd party mapping names to public keys, the identity of the sender can be set to whatever you want. Your model only works for non-tweets where I'm sending to people I had communication with in the past and was able to verif…

Post by libertygirl » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 11:01 PM UTC

michaelmrose wrote: post #113

lovvtide wrote: post #48

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So I've been building of one of the nostr web clients ( https://satellite.earth ) full time since December last year - I agree partially with all these points and will try to add something from my perspective of being perhaps a bit too close to this. 1) With regard to message replication/ordering, the relays are supposed to reject messages that are received with a timestamp that deviates from the server clock beyond…

I checked out a community that on the tin is about learning coding and found Trumpers, bigots and antivaxxers. It reminded me of pro free speech fork of Reddit. It wasn't a bad idea AT ALL on the face of it but in practice its front page was never without a racial slur and no decent people stayed long. If everyone cares about privacy then privacy focused places ought to be full of on average smart people having intel…

Post by libertygirl » Sat, Sep 02, 2023, 11:07 PM UTC

segfaltnh wrote: post #139

futuretaint wrote: post #96

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nostr being an offshoot of crypto/bitcoin tech influences the protocol in important ways, like everything crypto/bitcoin you need to read documentation to understand the terminology being used and you need to 'invest' in the culture, which is bitcoin evangelist culture w/ all the baggage.

Which essentially limits adoption to less than 1% of humans, a problem centralized social networks don't have to contend with.

Post by kyle-rb » Sun, Sep 03, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

libertygirl wrote: post #157

segfaltnh wrote: post #139

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Which essentially limits adoption to less than 1% of humans, a problem centralized social networks don't have to contend with.

This is a feature and not a flaw. More does not equal better.