I think it may be to late for Nostr \ stacker news ~tech

338 sats \ 25 comments \ @timapple 6h tech

I've been thinking about it, and I feel it may be a bit late for Nostr. I think activity pub has gathered most of the momentum and will come out on top in the future. What do you all think?

Note: I love Nostr, but I don't think it has the acceptance nor will it.

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589 sats \ 3 replies \ @hodlpleb 5h

what is activity pub?

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @rheedi0 1h

this is my favorite comment on the internet today

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 24m

No seriously, what is activity pub?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 3h

also my question

175 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 6h

It's never too late for something better.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @timapple OP 6h

Very true of course. Was just a feeling I was going with today.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 5h

ActivityPub has the problem of your identity being tied to a server unlike on nostr. See this for more arguments.

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @eroc1990 4h

I don't see that as a bad thing, necessarily. Sometimes you want centralized moderation. I have self-sovereignty on my own data by running my own Mastodon instance, but I can still use the greater network.

I do love Nostr's complete portability but to say one is better than the other, in my opinion, would be doing a disservice to the one being put down.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @leaf 1h

There isnt any reason the two cannot be interoperable with stuff like mostr. In fact, for ultimate robustness, I hope we end up with a load of different protocols bridged together

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @BTCLNAT 4h

I have been educated in Nostr and it has everything to do with decentralization and censorship resistance. Also as a protocol it is strong. But every option is valuable and everyone chooses.

But recently I heard about Tox? According to what I have searched it has P2P Chat features, like a solution to Skype. Is it FOS? Only has a Chat function? What do you think?

Nostr has it all

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 1h

Tox is excellent for private and secure communication. Yes its open source and there are several versions of it available.

1 sat \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 5h

Nah. Nostr will win.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @eroc1990 4h

Giving off this energy rn haha

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 4h

We must be in it to win it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Malachi17T 26m

The idea of any social network of known people that is publicly available may be undoable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Taft 1h

There's always room for improvement, no matter how late it may seem.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 3h

Maybe when everyone has to full-on kyc for the mainstream sm platforms ppl might wake up to the freedom of Nostr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bartoli 3h

Who said nostr was supposed to be used only for social networks?

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @jasonb 5h

I’ve not heard of activity pub. Given that, I’m already skeptical that it has more momentum than nostr, but maybe I’m out of the loop. Is there anything it does better?

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @timapple OP 5h

Activity pub is what is behind Mastodon and many other services.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @konstantin21 2h

mastodon allows censorship on every server at the discretion of the owner and no moving your social graph. its kind of the opposite of nostr. would not consider them competitors.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @timapple OP 2h

Nostr is just as easily censored at the relay. Just like Mastodon you can host your own which is the one true independence if you had to go that far.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jasonb 5h

Ah, thanks. I made a nostr client that filters out Bitcoin and nostr-related content and the vast bulk of what is left is cross-posting from mastodon, so I’m tempted to believe you now. Haha However, is the protocol behind it as censorship resistant as nostr? I wonder if all those folks cross-posting will just become nostr only posters if something dirty happens with activity pub.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5h

It’s not as censorship-resistant since your identity is tied to a server.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 6h

There can always be two. People will find that nostr is better at some things. And it all comes back to how well it updates.