Nostr Web Client

I never understood why people post all their content on 3 rd party platforms, decentralised or otherwise. Unless you control your server or relay it's out of your hands, you are the product.

In 2009 I followed the approach of wiser heads than me.

publish original content on your own self hosted platforms, and share snippets of that content around the internet to encourage social media followers to check the original content.

I'm not adheríng so close to that strategy with Nostr, yet. But I'm sure the end Game is to have a Nostr relay and mothball my self hosted wordpress home so all core content is easily sent out in different formats within the Nostr internet.

We shall see.

Garbage nsec 8mo ago

Yes exactly, and worse, the amount of data a Nostr relay can pull from you and those in your circle is pretty worrying. There could easily be an issue with "honeypot relays", relays that are set up to be fast and convenient, with owners that appear altruistic and on message, and terms of service that say all the right things (and more), but in truth exist to create data profiles of specific people and their followers.

The honeypot relay problem is one not talked about much. The solution is as you say, everyone runs their own relay. But that's basically a PDS.

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alp 8mo ago

I think something similar has also been brought up by nostr:npub1gcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewqlfnj5z

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Garbage nsec 8mo ago

Ah right, thanks for that. He clearly gets it.

Honestly if I was an at-risk person the last network I'd promote my base to use would be Nostr. I wouldn't trust my base to be able to steer clear of honeypot relays and expose all sorts of things.

As for privacy policy and terms, to a degree that's helpful—but any honeypot relay would also have honeypot terms.

alp 8mo ago

That too. And in this regard, it's also easier to hold one CEO of a central platform accountable than many, often anonymous relay operators.