ok i see there's another thing now. what's pubky? #asknostr
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nostr:npub13ndpm2hm9hud4azsq5euhf5mv3d05r90wymwxsd7rdn29609hhvqp60svh has a project he's been working on
is it related to bitchat or whitenoise?
whoever named it white noise really had nostr in mind
Just had to
you shouldn't have
i know.
Also here's your Nostr/Pubky jargon-free comparison:
Nostr is like you write your name on trading cards and throw them out to the wind. Anyone who finds a card knows it's from you.
Pubky is like you write your name on a shoebox and all your cards stay in there. There's a live feed of all shoeboxes and people can check out your cards using that.
In Nostr nobody can erase your name from those cards.
In Pubky nobody can take away your shoebox.
yeah now i'm even more confused. i would choose cards in the wind over the shoebox livefeed.
you wouldn't notice the difference. this is all behind the scenes.
ok you would notice it if you tried to delete one of your cards. because in nostr you kinda can't, pubky you kinda can.
or if you wanted to see exactly how many followers someone has (again nostr you kinda can't, pubky you kinda can).
but only for specific actions like that. the general sense of being in a twitter-ish world would be the same.
noted
In Pubky, you use your public key to establish your own self-sovereign DNS by placing it into the most decentralized network on the planet. (public key domains)
This allows us to obsolete relays and give people credible exit from any (formerly) walled gardens, or they can self-host.
We also apply a semantic social grapg via a social tagging mechanism that allows everyone to become the "algorithm" together using web-of-trust concepts.
Pubky is in beta and is part of a wider mission to ship a parallel free-market society via open source tech and products.
thanks for this comprehensive explanation. i understood about every second word, but it sounds impressive.
With less jargon: 😉
Better keys:
Your keys can be kept cold, thus more secure. That key controls a web domain on most decentralized network on Earth, so no company owns it.
Better servers:
Host your data yourself or with trusted services and switch freely, no lock-in.
Better content:
You and the people you follow create the algorithm. You control exactly what you see through filters and tagging.
In Beta now, merging open search & open social media to create an open p2p marketplace.
Questions:
If the key can be kept cold, does this mean your posts are not signed by your private key? If so, then how can posts be self-authenticating?
If your public key is effectively a permissionless DNS address that can be pointed to your own server, or to another trusted provider's server, and switched at will, is there censorship resistance via redundancy, or is data only stored on one server at a time?
I really do like the semantic social graph idea, but I think the above are two key strengths of Nostr.
Here, I made a whole infographic to answer your question 🤙
TLDR - it's a place where the creator talks shit behind your back
pubky.app/post/r1i4k5tabku984q5fbx5wn6g4okdytdid34omhfdfg69zjzbkdqo/0033MH8AM5D8G