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Feature, not a bug.
I hope Mastodon succeeds in general, just because it's much closer in form to Nostr.. But I guess people have to actually want a decentralized platform to succeed, not just be "Twitter without Elon", aka Bluesky...
I was on bitcoin mastodon, but I lost my account since the instance shut down. Federated is better than centralized, but there are still issues...
I run my own instance, nostr:nprofile1qqsw3znfr6vdnxrujezjrhlkqqjlvpcqx79ys7gcph9mkjjsy7zsgygpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgkwaehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvshszenhwden5te0ve5kcar9wghxummnw3ezuamfdejj7mnsw43rzct689ux5wp4vdkhsa3cv5uk5wte8qcxcan3wqunwcmjwdckgafjvec82vmnwfmhg6ry8yuhzen489chxemnw3sk6wre8qlkyun0v9jxxctnws7hgun4v5ztgqng wasn't able to rug pull me š
The sad part is that as time goes on the domesticated normie wants this. The trend is real.
Let's go! I'm building as fast as I can to ensure we can adopt all the new people š
Same with bluesky:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/08-22-2025-mississippi-hb1126
Shit I didn't expect KYC World to become a reality in US so soon.
I'm hoping this will wake up a lot of normies. My hopium dose for the day at least.
I think Nostr is uniquely immune to these laws ā¦ because accounts and content (can be) šÆcontrolled by users and because individual services are able to be distributed across many apps.
Social apps can start by offloading key generation and management to designated apps that do only this, and nothing else.
SECTION 2.a > āDigital service" means a website, an application, a program, or software that collects or processes personal identifying information with Internet connectivity.ā
SECTION 4.1 > āA digital service provider may not enter into an agreement with a person to CREATE AN ACCOUNT with a digital service unless the person has registered the person's age with the digital service provider.ā
These are two fantastuc loopholes. Nice find.
It's amazing what you discover when you t
read the law/regulations directly instead of reading articles and summeries instead!
Nostr is different. š
Keypairs are not accounts to begin with. I dont think its fair to put Nostr clients under 'digital service' either, because clients are tools, not a service provided. All these things just assume server oriented architectures.
Not sure if these people understand this though. Relays on the other hand might face issues, but keeping them small might help in practice.
Now Iām no lawyer (I hope to hire one though ā¦ ) but it looks like Mississippi law is gonna disagree with you about ānostr clientsā.
Iād wager that their definition of a ādigital serviceā, as one that ācollects or processes personal identifying informationā, is gonna encompass any Nostr client that sends events to relays. The term āprocessorā has special legal meaning in this context, as does ācontrollerā.
Nostrās architecture lends itself well to separation of concern, allowing apps to perform discrete services on behalf of āuser controllersā. Because events are signed by user held keys (and thereby āimmutableā) relays simply storing events would not be considered controllers or processors. But Iām sure regulators will find other ways to regulate, if they wish.
But relays do access management on the content though, be it implicit or explicit via NIP-42. So why would they not be controllers?
Anyway, all of this stuff is very tiresome. I honestly believe that the underlying problems/issues that cause these stupid laws everywhere can be adressed by Nostr in actuall practical ways.
Atleast, that is assuming these laws atleast have the intent to solve problems and not just be an excuse for controll. In any case Nostr fixes that problem as well
And yes. Key pairs are not accounts. Nice point. š
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Like bitcoin, in nostr you just broadcast signed messages and other nodes decide to add it to their data set or not. If we can't do that in the US, then the first amendment means nothing.
How has the Nostr CEO responded to age verification in Mississippi?