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Anthony Accioly
3w ago
This may not be a very popular opinion around here ("Nostrrrrr Onlyyyyyyy" influencer battle cry noises), but I’m happy for the Fediverse and have built a bit around it as well—though not as much as I do here on Nostr.
Sure, ActivityPub (and Mastodon in particular) has its own architectural problems to overcome. I genuinely think Nostr's approach to identity and content distribution is superior. Nevertheless, as far as I’m concerned, ActivityPub, Nostr, and Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project (which, for some reason, seems to get close to zero airtime on Nostr) are the good guys of the emerging decentralised web. I want all of these projects to succeed. All of them!
Bluesky is the only emerging network I’m unsure about. I’m not impressed by the AT Protocol and have my doubts about whether it will ever become a fully decentralised ecosystem. The “self-hosted PDS = decentralisation” is a sweet, sweet lie (well intended or not). Also, I have no evidence that anyone but companies with deep pockets will ever be able to run full AT stack solutions at scale.
Sure, ActivityPub (and Mastodon in particular) has its own architectural problems to overcome. I genuinely think Nostr's approach to identity and content distribution is superior. Nevertheless, as far as I’m concerned, ActivityPub, Nostr, and Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project (which, for some reason, seems to get close to zero airtime on Nostr) are the good guys of the emerging decentralised web. I want all of these projects to succeed. All of them!
Bluesky is the only emerging network I’m unsure about. I’m not impressed by the AT Protocol and have my doubts about whether it will ever become a fully decentralised ecosystem. The “self-hosted PDS = decentralisation” is a sweet, sweet lie (well intended or not). Also, I have no evidence that anyone but companies with deep pockets will ever be able to run full AT stack solutions at scale.
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mister_monster
@mister_monster
3w ago
I was a long time Fediverse denizen and as soon as I found Nostr I booked without regret. The promise of a censorship proof federated network did not materialize. Your options are watch what you say newspeak style or hang around terminally online chucklefucks. It's a topology prone to fragmentation.
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Anthony Accioly
@Anthony Accioly
3w ago
I agree to an extent... especially regarding Mastodon's instance-level moderation and the trigger-happy / domain-wide banning being used as a go-to moderation tool. Turns out Mastodon some well known instances are dropping like flies. This is one of the reasons I’m against NIP-05 as a verification/moderation tool on Nostr.
The way ActivityPub is built also makes it harder to, say, run your own GoToSocial instance successfully and actually be seen in the network. That’s definitely a problem.
To be fair, Mostr has made me see a side of the Fediverse that I was blissfully unaware of. The worst crap from the Fediverse I’ve ever come across has come through the Mostr bridge.
To be honest, IMO, content-wise, Mastodon is still much better for my particular interests. I can't lie about this. I salute the heroes talking to themselves using hashtags around here, but in
The way ActivityPub is built also makes it harder to, say, run your own GoToSocial instance successfully and actually be seen in the network. That’s definitely a problem.
To be fair, Mostr has made me see a side of the Fediverse that I was blissfully unaware of. The worst crap from the Fediverse I’ve ever come across has come through the Mostr bridge.
To be honest, IMO, content-wise, Mastodon is still much better for my particular interests. I can't lie about this. I salute the heroes talking to themselves using hashtags around here, but in
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au9913
@au9913
3w ago
I've not seen anyone told "maybe they don't belong on nostr" and would call out a person for saying that. What was the reason people said they didn't want anything to do with nostr?
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Anthony Accioly
@Anthony Accioly
3w ago
I've seen it more than once, unfortunately. To be fair, in a couple of instances, I felt that there was some trolling or aggressive behaviour on the other side as well (e.g., an aggressive instance lumping everyone on Nostr into the same unflattering box). But yes, regardless of the circumstances, we should all call out this kind of behaviour.
As for the specific reasons people have given for locking themselves out of Nostr, I don’t think I’m saying anything new, but, the vast majority of those who leave just don’t want to deal with:
- Widespread Bitcoin content
- Widespread Nostr development content (guilty!) and evangelism
- Bots
- Anti-vaxxers
- Hardline conservatives
- Hardline conservatives in libertarian clothes
The common theme is that they dislike the content on Nostr or just find it boring.
Then, there
As for the specific reasons people have given for locking themselves out of Nostr, I don’t think I’m saying anything new, but, the vast majority of those who leave just don’t want to deal with:
- Widespread Bitcoin content
- Widespread Nostr development content (guilty!) and evangelism
- Bots
- Anti-vaxxers
- Hardline conservatives
- Hardline conservatives in libertarian clothes
The common theme is that they dislike the content on Nostr or just find it boring.
Then, there
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