Oddbean new post about login | logout Thanks I hate it. Dramatic. Maybe I'm just not understanding. Looks like youre trying to recreate fediverse on nostr? Probably the best thing about nostr is that it isn't the fediverse. Why can't people just use hashtags? If it's any consolation, I don't get the point of NIP05 either, and I'd say it's cool youre using that, but I just fail to see the point of it. It doesn't appear to solve any technical problem at all, it's just silos on nostr, complete with feifdoms. I feel like the only thing that can come of this is that we get dragged back to an inferior user experience.
If it's not for you it's all good, you're an "independent" like in my diagram. However I solved a LOT of technical problems while building this.
I'm sure you did man, youre one of the hardest working people I've had the pleasure of interacting with on this side of the internet. Using NIP05 to do this is a pretty cool idea like I said, I'm sure there's a ton more interesting stuff you've solved that you didn't talk about, I'd love to hear about some of it. So I'm curious, you and I have both seen the terrible effect of admin fiefdoms in the fediverse over the years, you probably more than anyone else. You're not concerned about recreating that here? Turning relays into community servers, admins of community identities, youre not worried about block lists and flame wars and people getting booted from communities for having the wrong friends? A key getting blocked from fetching from a relay because their posts are on a specific "bad person" relay or anything like that? The fact that admins can't take your keys is wonderful, bit did you put any thought or work into trying to avoid all that mess from happening here?
Of course. I think I could give a separate speech about only that subject. 1. Nostr is a different group of people, and already an established censorship-resistant protocol. 2. A little bit of fighting is good, as long as the network isn't broken by it. 3. Nostr is fundamentally an Independent's protocol created by and for Independents. Not custodying the keys is the most important choice I made. I think there are major advantages to this design and you're underestimating how seamless it is to move between servers. You can use multiple Ditto servers (and regular Nostr clients) at the same time. Megalomaniac admins will still prefer to just use Mastodon.
Can one npub have multiple DNS? So if I am on Community Rabbit lovers as myself@RabbitLovera and they kick me out and block my DNS, the people who were following me as me@FantaLovers will still be able of finding me? So each DNS shows my faccet/interest for it's community, but as I have multiple interestes I have multiple DNS
Nostr 2.0 has arrives with the announcement of "Ditto". Arguably, is the first of the generation of apps. Alex has indeed solved a LOT of technical problems: Scalability, extensibility, speed, privacy, payments, moderation, portability, realtime, verifiablity. Dont get me wrong, I LOVE the first gen clients, and they are not going anywhere. But for nostr to level up, we need ditto, and more things like ditto. Try it, run it, build it, create new specs. nostr:note15wu0zsgz0nmul63ptu6lv9rheqa57xcd9g5xa7ujup2a8sl8h2equm9qc7