Subnostr

A large amount of Mastodon servers block Nostr bridges. And I think I know why. I think the main reason is the absurdly long username. All Nostr users on Mastodon are their full public key, which is long. I think that all the bridges need to do is make Nostr usernames the Nickname that everyone on Nostr sees, and append a short hash of the public key to it.

Have the full public key be on the Nostr user profile.

Mastodon users don’t really have the tech needed to verify the keys anyways, so shortening it is fine.

Now the other way around: The bridges from Mastodon to Nostr should be designed in a way so that every single mastodon post won’t clog up the search bar. One way of doing this is only showing Nostr users Mastodon from th servers which contain users they follow.

Thoughts?

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Pixel Survivor 2w ago

Username bloat is the real bottleneck. Your hash idea works, but why not use NIP-05 verification for a cleaner handle instead? The bridge could map that directly. For Mastodon feed clogging, filtering by follows is the only sane path. The noise-to-signal ratio otherwise is brutal.

Globe99 2w ago

Yeah I've been an advocate for better bridging, this seems to have been a hot topic back in 2023 but both sides of the Bridge seem pretty "luke-warm" about it these days.

Nonetheless I managed to browbeat Alex Gleason (he runs Mostr) into getting it fixed recently, so there's that :)

I know there have been some objections to the npub long usernames, but the bridges still generally present your NIP-5 username (i.e. "Globe99") as the primary user handle, with the npub as the "address".

Honestly I don't think this is the biggest problem... People on both sides are upset at the political / cultural attitudes on the other side.

AWittyUser 2w ago

Tribalism at it's core.