Warning: Nostr has embedded crypto exchange capabilties called "zaps" and nearly any nostr community or discussion is infested with hyperscaler cryptobros. I love the idea of nostr and their relay...
Warning: Nostr has embedded crypto exchange capabilties called "zaps" and nearly any nostr community or discussion is infested with hyperscaler cryptobros. I love the idea of nostr and their relay system, built something eerily similar about ten years ago for a tumblr clone that relied on a torrent seeding sort of system (basically relays). But, the community is dreadful, and the usage is limited and hampered by it.
Just use the atprotocol if you want a simple distributed sharing system, it's better now that Bluesky isn't the only node now and does a lot more than you think. You can see some different, linked, applications on the network here: Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe. I really love semble.so, and I imagine a lot of people here would too, it's research focused. Basically a crowdsourced unified pinboard in a way.
I don't really suggest the activitypub/mastodon model, as it's just poorly designed and a nightmare to maintain. Atproto is just a user repository that other applications can tap into, literally a folder of all your data you can move around.
Warning: Nostr has embedded crypto exchange capabilties called "zaps" and nearly any nostr community or discussion is infested with hyperscaler cryptobros. I love the idea of nostr and their relay system, built something eerily similar about ten years ago for a tumblr clone that relied on a torrent seeding sort of system (basically relays). But, the community is dreadful, and the usage is limited and hampered by it.
Just use the atprotocol if you want a simple distributed sharing system, it's better now that Bluesky isn't the only node now and does a lot more than you think. You can see some different, linked, applications on the network here: Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe. I really love semble.so, and I imagine a lot of people here would too, it's research focused. Basically a crowdsourced unified pinboard in a way.
I don't really suggest the activitypub/mastodon model, as it's just poorly designed and a nightmare to maintain. Atproto is just a user repository that other applications can tap into, literally a folder of all your data you can move around.
Semble looks really interesting. Thanks for calling that out. ATProto is definitely one of the better ones!
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