Here are my initial thoughts on the new Pubky social media protocol, which seems designed to compete with nostr:
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Discussion
These indexers are the cancer we're trying to combat, and both Pubky and Bluesky embraced that same approach of having one big indexer controlling the entire network with some meaningless public key infrastructure and inefficient homeserver/PDS mumbo-jumbo in the back that no one cares about -- and they shouldn't care anyway because it's actually meaningless.
Decentralization/censorship resistance without signing the content seems quite useless.
What should be the advantages over Nostr?
The "some of the software is currently open source" quote seems restrictive for Pubky's growth, on comparison (and to my knowledge) Nostr is attempting to create more general guidelines for a censorship resistant protocol, and for those guidelines to be available to everyone it is necessary the software be available to everyone, having a closed source dependency might break laws or create a bigger problem when the dependency is out dated.
All of the protocol has been open source for months. Literally only one repo is not open source yet because it isnt safe to use yet, and we specifically offered all beta testers access to that repo as well.
You guys keep looking for excuses to avoid this instead of understand it.
I understand why, it is just disappointing.
Why would it be disappointing? I'm not looking for excuses to avoid it, I'm merely pointing out a key factor for Pubky's growth. I'm sure we can agree on that.
Thank you for your concern, but again, the Pubky protocol is already open-sourced, so you are raising the alarm about one repo of unfinished code for a new app that isn't ready for use - AND all of its testing users have access to that code too if they want.
The PKARR aspect itself, one of the most novel aspects, has been open-sourced for a lot longer and has been proposed to Nostr devs for more than a year.
What makes Nostr people interested in other things is simply whether they were made by Nostr people for Nostr people - it isn't science, it's loyalty.
I'm interested in pubky and I consider myself a nostr person
I think some of the ideas you guys have implemented are great and the rest are reasonable
I hope nostr becomes more like pubky in respect to the pubky ideas that I think are better and I hope pubky continues to improve
May the best protocol win