Bluesky is getting some massive growth as they add users. While it may feel like competition with Nostr, in reality it’s open protocols vs closed and centralized systems.
"Bluesky now has ~53564 users (17.5% growth since 4 days ago) and ~3857439 total follows (49.7% increase since 4 days ago).”
Invite code fomo at work.
“Open protocol with invite codes”
i think until at-protocol is at scale, its not an apple to apple comparison between nostr and bluesky. maybe damus or iris to bluesky might be closer comparison. On Nostr, we already have multiple clients and relays that users can select if they are not happy - and its an ecosystem of digital and financial applications that's being built here
but having said that, i want at-protocol to win. i want nostr to win. i want the people to win - we are far from being at a competition with each other at this stage
Disagree. Ethereum has confused many people about what bitcoin is and has hampered adoption (regardless of the “everything is good for bitcoin” people).
I think bluesky will be the same; luckily, because it’s not money the opportunity costs of using both are not so apparent, but they’re there nonetheless (people don’t perceive attention as a scarce resource as much as time/money)
It’s true. Ethereum has bee bitcoin’s parasite, holding it back in a significant way.
Yea, right now it’s 1 client 1 protocol and closed up, so it’s very centralised. I think the original goal was for at-protocol to have an open source system right ? Similar to Nostr just diff tech - I’m hoping that will be translated. It is very dangerous now and I think we are all calling it out on good intentions
Exactly
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Jack is a smart dude and is pushing things forward. I’ll try it, happy with Nostr though. However it’s great for the average social media user to take back a little self sovereignty and learn to protect themselves from the overbearing State / Big Tech power plays encroaching on all of us
I have about 100 followers who follow everyone, but that’s like 5 million follows, so that follow number doesn’t make sense it’s 1.5 million short just for those 100 accounts.
One DHT based Resource Records to abstract and connect them all.
For example Nostr/Bluesky for timeliness, and Matrix for encrypted chat rooms and VoIP
I built the MVP as I promised, and validated its scalability (120k users' records can be kept alive with one 4 cores vps, before any caching layers)
github.com/nuhvi/pkarr
Any comments and issues are welcome there too.
Here is my key mapped to both Marrix and Nostr
https://pkarr.nuh.dev/?pk=o4dksfbqk85ogzdb5osziw6befigbuxmuxkuxq8434q89uj56uyy
Nostr should restrict access to invite only for EXTRA GROWTH
I see a lot of creatives joining Bluesky in the recent days. Nostr has not seen a significant user group immigration excluding the BTC etc.
