What are the potential pros and cons of joining the Nostr ecosystem, and how can they impact businesses and individuals?
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Neo 21 Mar 2023
I use only Nostr now. 0% Twitter.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 21 Mar 2023
Many people see NOSTR as a "replacement" of Twatter.
I DO NOT see it like that. NOSTR is more than just that, is a protocol.
I am not interested in a new decentralized twatter.
I am more in expectation to see where is going NOSTR and interested to see important things built around NOSTR (see LNBits nostr-market) that could bring more Bitcoin adoption by more merchants.
Talking, chatting, zapping on all those NOSTR clients it doesn't do anything "revolutionary". People will get bored in the end of all that "zapping" sats to each others.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 21 Mar 2023
Well, could be a wasted time for business since only bitcoiners are there zapping the hell out of each other.
On the other hand, never hurts to be early to the party.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 21 Mar 2023
I joined Nostr because it appears to have an incredibly active community with prominent people participating. I'm trying to build a Nostr bot now, I'm a total pleb who doesn't work in IT. I see it as a new internet technology that could be highly disruptive to current leaders/gatekeepers (Twitter, Facebook, et al.) and builds off of the theme of decentralization like Bitcoin.
I think Nostr, even if it doesn't survive, will inspire the next wave of the internet - call it Web3.0 or Web5 or whatever.
A growing number of people disagree with central gatekeepers - and now that there are communities that have proven a decentralized way can work.. there's no turning back. Pandora's box.
Pro: by participating in Nostr you have your hand on the heartbeat of cutting edge internet development (especially since it's integrating closely with Bitcoin/Lightning and relays are being written for personal nodes like Umbrel and Start9's EmbassyOS). By staring now you will have a head start.
Cons: Nostr might not work and you may spend countless hours working on something that one day stops working after people move on.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 21 Mar 2023
pros: it censorship resistant
cons: relays make connection to feeds unreliable
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @JohnRawlins 21 Mar 2023
positive: it does something useful
negative: it's forever blockchain, and is used for bad, or for the feds somehow.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jem 21 Mar 2023
it does not use a blockchain.
it does not require the use of bitcoin or any other "digital asset".
though if you mean, you cannot revoke publication of a signed event, this is true.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JohnRawlins 23 Mar 2023
:) what i meant is that it uses cryptographic signing keys.
sorry i was sleepy.
i far prefer the internet model of security through obscurity.
ssl and all that was a mistake, imho.
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