Why is nostr better than mastodon? A friend asked me
Discussion
Mastodon has gatekeepers and isn’t really decentralized.
Server admins have the power.
can one take their mastodon account to another server?
You can export your followers but it’s not the same account.
I found Mastadon to be borderline unusable. Took ages to set up and your content was still at the mercy of the instance host.
I don't think this is a fair criticism. Concerns with censorship, defederation and account deletion are fair but Mastodon and fedi in general have mature apps that are much more usable than nostr's though we are getting slowly closer to that.
