Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to all three
Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It's even tougher for those who are experimenting with the new wave of Twitter-like services, like
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Hm, I guess that is one workaround option. What is Nostr though? Tell me the dirt
Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media.
It's a more extreme version of ActivityPub that is more technical and less user-friendly.
Okay well if it's on ActivityPub I can track it thru Misskey or whatever, cool beans.
Just curious if it was some other more corporate walled off shit like bsky.app. Or if there is any beef community wise lol
It's one of those "no censorship at any cost" type things that are then surprised when they have nazis. Also a lot of crypto stuff. Just look at this trending page: https://nostr.band/?trending=posts
Do they have any post that doesn't contain the word bitcoin lol
Naw don't worry they also have blatant racism, qanon, and constant monetization.
Seriously, today there were 2 separate posts about how actually the aliens in starship troopers are bad because they're ugly.
Lmao it's like Bitchute, interesting
It's a different protocol than ActivityPub. There is a work in progress bridge, but they are not natively interoperable.
ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, etc) , atproto (Bluesky) and Nostr (Nostr) are all different protocols.
I like this. Helps make it less important which platform you're on if you can communicate with all of them.
And is developed on GitHub with high interest of implementing cryptocurrencies somewhere.
While ActivityPub is a way for social media instances/server to ask for a user feed or do updates (likes, comments, etc.), Nostr is a media format and more client-side protocol.
ActivityPub. Servers talk to each other, users are talking with servers in different language, like Mastodon talking Mastodon API. Users log in to their servers and have an ID there.
Nostr. Users have ID for themselfs, servers only act as a proxies to deliver a message, feeds are stored on devices, account do not live on any single place. Both users need to have at least one server common for each other to see their feed.
Honestly I think while ActivityPub is a nice glue, Nostr is already obsolete. In my opinion problems that Nostr is trying to solve should not be dealed with making an Peer2Peer social media app, but rather with universal P2P network. Decentralized networks like Yggdrasil or I2P do anything Nostr can do and are not limited to only posts, but can deliver any data just like the Internet. I host my own Minecraft server on Yggdrasil for example.
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