0 sats \ 7 replies \ @TheWildHustle 29 Oct \ on: awesome-pubky is live devs
Is pubkey a nostr alternative?
After further research I can confidently say no. Pubky is another form of name resolution. It works by associating pubkeys (similar to npubs) with DNS records which are signed and uploaded to the BitTorrent DHT. Each of those records (at ~1kb) can point to several IPs and domain names to create a censorship-resistant DNS layer.
Now, apps can do a lot of this resolution and signature checking themselves so in that sense it's a choice to implement in each app with Nostr just being an active environment where this could get adopted.
Much like nostr involves tradeoffs of ux for decentralization and censorship resistance, this feels like a further push in the cr direction. Interesting but maybe getting too niche. Still I wish them luck. CR and self-sovereignty are important and deserve more energy.
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the DNS part is mostly pkarr/pkdns, I think it is playing in roughly the same field as nostr with homeservers and clients if you take this 3 features from pubky-core repo:
- Public key based authentication.
- Public key based 3rd party authorization.
- Key-value store through PUT/GET/DELETE HTTP API + pagination.
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Fair enough. Whether key value store goes anywhere is all about the dance between apps and specs. Nostr leaves a lot to be desired especially on the specs front so with a sane and fair standards process I think it could eat.
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Is it crazy to think that I'm primarily using Nostr apps (outside of work)
Amethyst and Primal replaced Twitter
Wavlake replaced Apple Music
Ox Chat replaced Telegram
Zap.store replaced Google play store
Fountain replaced Spotify
Npub.pro and cypher.space replaced ghost and Shopify
Sn has nostr integrations
Obsidian has a nostr extension
Nostr only has about 10k daily active users
My user experience is probably in the top 1k due to relay selection/follows/constant tweaking.
Nostr amazes me.
Doesn't feel like I'm being unrealistic or smoking hopium when I say, the normie nostr user will have a 100x better experience in 12 months......not that I'm waiting for the normie to catch up either......and not calling you a normie.
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The progress has been amazing and will continue no doubt. What seems evident though is growth in users is way below what would be expected if all of the replacements were objectively better than their counterparts.
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True.
Although (for better or worse) I see user growth as just another metric that will improve my UX.
And the counterparts are a heck of a force when not standing alone.
I'm not clambering for user growth, but maybe it would help the devs with sustainable profitability.
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