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Picking Sides in the Protocol Wars

https://ewancroft.uk/blog/3lvzrtkwttz2p

"If AT Protocol is the friendly neighbourhood tech enthusiast and ActivityPub is the well-meaning but chaotic community organiser, then Nostr is absolutely that one person lurking at the mouth of an alley, trying to convince you that this cryptocurrency is different from all the others."

"The “bitcoin but social” aspect is precisely what puts me off."

"There’s also something deeply weird about Nostr’s community culture. It has this evangelical quality where proponents seem genuinely convinced they’re building the future of human communication, when in practice they’ve recreated Twitter but with more steps and mandatory cryptocurrency enthusiasm.

The whole thing feels less like social networking and more like a recruitment scheme for bitcoin maximalists."

"I understand the appeal of censorship resistance, truly I do.

But Nostr’s approach feels like using a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame.

The complexity-to-benefit ratio is absurd for most social media use cases."