Do you prefer Nostr over Bluesky?
Or which platform is your favourite, I neither Nostr or Bluesky?
Discussion
prefer nostr ofcourse, fast progress but devs here dont really care for non-bitcoiners, its all about the zaps right?
Disagree. I think ⚡️ are huge for reasons we haven’t even explored yet but it’s much bigger than that. Only speaking for #damus. We are constantly thinking wider adoption 💜
That’s not really true, ppl here are completely fixated on bitcoin even at the expense of basic functionality.
I agree that it is very dominantly the culture. Damus and Amethyst have both added more social features lately though, and Iefan and Mazin had been building stuff for actual creators that while using sats, aren't for sats if that makes any sense.
There are people that see the need for content other than Bitcoin. Including some devs.
Thanks for reply. I’d like to think the space is changing on Nostr. I can relate to what B says about feeling pushed out as non-bitcoiner, as I did feel that too for quit a while, and the coin culture did bring me to edge of leaving. But.. with that being said, I have managed to find & communicate with others who are also not bitcoiners, & have made some great friends. The other highly important thing I’d like say is that I really really appreciate #[5] listening to his user base on Damus. That in & of itself is giving power to the people, & creating a beautiful platform for all of us to each find our niche place, in this decentralized culture. I also understand much more than I did when I signed up many moons ago!—Back then I didn’t realize this wasn’t fully built space, & that it would flower 🌸 in front of me. I’ve watched & been part of much change here, some change good, some bad, but its always still went forward and grew in an organic & positive way.
I prefer nostr, I think it has more potential. But the devs need to focus on widespread adoption instead of niche bitcoin features. I read this thing by fiatjaf too, it’s about how bluesky is sus af. https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html
The bluesky ppl are obviously interested in algorithms (censorship) and monetisation. It’s basically the fediverse which is super broken.
This why I don’t understand why Jack is still on board of Bluesky.. it doesn’t seem like it’s going direction of decentralization
One thing I'll say in defense of algorithms is the "who to follow" algorithm on twitter is really good for finding ppl who you want to talk to. If there was some way to make that for nostr but unbiased/client hosted/decentralized I think that would actually give nostr an edge over the fedi in a significant way.
#[5] is this possibility w Nostr?
"The people you follow liked/ zapped/ renoted the notes of these people the most"
That’d be good actually, but I also find new follows through connections I make organically. Maybe an AI thing that analyses that and the global feed?
Yeah, you could also find people by looking at who also follows the people you follow, and then of those people look at who they follow that you don't already.
I think it's possible with what already exists in nostr, but might require a lot of processing power.
I guess that’s part of the “decentralised” bit.
Yeah, everything in computers is way more efficient when you can have 1 central authority managing the calculation of things then storing the results vs a bunch of individuals doing it themselves.
On the other hand decentralization prevents someone from secretly censoring or altering things.
Thank you for posting link. 🫶 Think this same article jack posted. I quickly skimmed it, but later I’ll do full read!