This is the first I'm hearing of it. What function does it serve? I mean, what kind of social media platform is it? Do you follow topics, or people? Or both? Is it for sharing images or text or...? I did a brief review of the Nostr website, but will admit I didn't dig too deep.
This is developed by people completely oblivious to the fact that social networking is primarily not a technical but a social problem. Thus to be honest: complete waste of time. But I guess if you want to communicate with a lot of crypto-coin scammers it is a good solution right now /s
The community is better in the Fediverse. I like the fact that posts are signed by a private key. makes accounts more portable. Mastodon has better mobile apps.
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.
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.
There is also Secure Scuttlebutt if you need extreme nomadicity
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.
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 :/
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