Oddbean new post about login | logout Yknow, you guys could always actually read any/some/all of the actual docs and content we have created, but i guess it is understandable that Nostr has a major tribalistic aspect of its culture. Many links at pubky.tech if you actually want to learn about our work.
thanks ! to be clear i'm not tribalistic for nostr, i like it design-wise, but as a social network i'm actually pretty critical of it, for one because it's so much just bitcoin twitter
Narrowing what we are doing to "social media app" would not be accurate. I dont really use nostr for the same reason, too much talk about Bitcoin and nostr. But in the end this is a release of a lot of cool open source tech, and the rest is helping people realize what is possible with it.
The core protocol is more like DNS+WebDav, it is totally agnostic to the social use case, in fact not even sufficient on its own, and that was deliberate. We wanted the 90% of apps that don't need global feeds or global search, to be able to use a dead simple stack as opposed to what Nostr does; repurposing something that only needed to exist for global feeds, and use it as web servers... as if we don't already have a perfect protocol (and tons of software) for that.
Pkarr.org should be generally interesting to you. Including ideas like using this on top of a payment protocol.
I'm reading the Pubky docs, but it keeps referring to Synonym instead of Pubky? Is Pubky the second version of Synonym?
Synonym is the name of the company that created Pubky. Synonym.to