Oddbean new post about login | logout I'm writing a document covering common objectives to nostr right now. Send me your most convincing FUD
"IT'S ALL CRYPTO BROS"
Mine: It could've just been a bitcoin telegram group. Non bitcoin content and non bitcoin content makers will be bored and their content ignored or lost in 'stack sats and stay humble'. Nostr merely replicates other social media dynamics, zaps don't offer an alternative, they are merely Likes with a low monetary value attached Zaps actually potentially making content worse by encouraging lazy bitcoin platitudes Umm I think I have a few more but I'll leave it there lol
damn this comment is a year old but 100% true. nostr is just a complex social network for Bitcoin maxi nerds. if it doesnt outros that, it'll never grow
“It’s just full of spam and people talking about cryptocurrencies. [laughs]” — Eugen Rochko, Mastodon CEO https://nostr.build/p/nb4154.mp4
Sorry to say but Mastodon was always a failure because the “global” feed literally never worked. By design it has network effects working against it, rather than for it. I used it for barely a few weeks before I found I couldn’t find anybody I was looking for, was trapped in a very small echo chamber, and had to make a totally different account when I was on a different instance at one point, and I just threw my hands up at that point. I can’t see how it can ever actually have the momentum necessary to become a scale that matters. And honestly at this point the opportunity is already passed.
Pretty great band though.
That was my experience, too. I migrated my original account to a different server and lost all of my followers. When I reply to anything using mostr.bridge it just creates a burner account on a single instance that looks like shit to anyone reading it on the other side. Mastodon is unusable and not worth my time. I’m glad I found Nostr when I did.
If popular relays are known publicly, they can easily just be individually censored and make the network unworkable.
“We already have Twitter and Rumble for free speech. We don’t need another new system, we need to use what works.”
At their core, relays are actually a pretty straightforward concept, it's just completely different from what we are used to. Relays are just servers where data is stored that the apps on our devices can fetch and display for us. It's just that we are used to there only being one server that we all connect to for a given platform, and the entity controlling the server is the same entity producing the app to fetch the data on that server. No one could imagine being able to spin up their own Facebook server, for instance. With Nostr, there is no limit to the number of servers, and anyone who wants to can even run their own. Moreover, anyone can create apps that fetch data from those servers and display it. The servers and apps just need to be able to understand each other by all speaking the same Nostr language or protocol.