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50 sats \ 4 replies \ @orthzar 21 Aug 2023 \ on: ODELL's article about NOSTR status... nostr
Social media hit a dead-end in terms of advancement over a decade ago (i.e. when they made social media smart phone apps). The only advancement since then has been the creation decentralized social media protocols (e.g. Secure Scuttlebutt, ActivityPub). But Nostr-as-social-media is such a minor improvement over those protocols and over centralized platforms that there's no practical reason to switch to Nostr-as-social-media.
But, Nostr can be used in other, better ways -- if only people would give up on social media.
I'm curious, how could be used on better ways?
I partially disagree, at least for TikTok, I know it's not new anymore but certainly changed how the public consume content.
But certainly things seems to be slowing down overall.
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I'm curious, how could be used on better ways?
If you think of Nostr as a means for computers to communicate, then the possibilities are endless. Almost every program/app that currently uses servers, could switch to using Nostr instead. And new kinds of programs/apps are possible, because Nostr is infinitely extensible.
I'm slowly working on a list of better ways to use Nostr. Notice that the first two items in the list have already been implemented.
I have more ideas in my notes. So I'm slowly adding more ideas as I search through my notes.
I partially disagree, at least for TikTok I know it's not new anymore ...
TikTok is a combination of YouTube and Twitter. All three of those platforms have profiles, follows, responses, and posts. What's unique about TikTok is that it only allows posts to be short videos -- similar to Twitter's prior character limit . Is there anything else that TikTok has, that Twitter and YouTube don't have?
TikTok [has] certainly changed how the public consumes content.
That is true. But it did so only by increasing the rate at which content flows out of your phone. The very short videos play endlessly; it's like a firehose of content. Does any TikTok user remember anything they watch? Can they?
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nostr can be used as a decentralized and organically populated datastore with a consistent, permissionless API. That's how I've been using it for the last 7 months
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That's a great idea... I don't have technical skills to do that but I know how API's works. That's how versatile the protocol is...
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