Nostr

Has anybody checked on minds.com ?

Opinion of the site itself aside, it was an early Nostr adopter. Can we even see them on our relays tho? Did they really go all the way in on Nostr?

I'm not making this up. Here's something they wrote in December 22 - https://www.minds.com/minds/blog/minds-nostr-and-the-future-of-decentralized-social-networkin-1445110266495766533

Newton 2y ago

This is interesting for #Nostr. MINDS.COM SAYS:

"Minds is now a relay which means other clients like Anigma, Damus, Astral and many more are now broadcasting events to Minds and you can sign-in to these apps with your private key. The source code can be found here.

"Minds is now a quasi-client which means we are broadcasting events to our relay (and potentially others). The source code can be found here.

At Minds, we proudly became core contributors to the Nostr protocol with the contribution of NIP-26 which enables delegated event signing. This delegation protocol can potentially enable many major networks (Twitter, Odysee, Rumble, etc) to join Nostr relatively easily."

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Newton 2y ago

SOMEONE REPLIED TO IT THERE ON MINDS WITH A NOTE TONE . I QUOTE:

I've been hearing a lot about this sort of stuff for awhile, but have not really seen it in practical application at all. If Minds is decentralized, then where are all the other Minds nodes? How does one become a Minds node? What does that even look like?

If Minds content is being decentralized to other networks, then where is it? What networks? How can we see it?

If content from other networks is accessible via Minds, then where and how?

Minds boasts about using the decentralized system of Matrix, and indeed it uses that code. The problem is, the Minds Matrix Server is NOT decentralized as far as I can tell. Access to the rest of the Matrix Decentralized Network has been removed from the copy of Matrix that Minds runs. So, their Matrix server is completely CENTRALIZED around Minds itself. You can't even use a Matrix client to access Minds, has to be done through their Minds CENTRALIZED website.

I know Rome wasn't built in a day, and thats fine. But what exactly has been done so far needs to be more clearly communicated.