Nostr Web Client

Good point. It is a improvement. But it's more like a 10% improvement instead of 100% improvement that Nostr has originally promised. Maybe I am overthinking this.

Matt Lorentz 2y ago

I still think Nostr is not particularly good at censorship resistance. From that perspective it is pretty similar to that of RSS, or ActivityPub which have been around for a while. At the end of the day if most companies don’t want to host your stuff then it will be hard to keep it visible. Nostr isn’t peer to peer (yet, anyway).

What’s special isn’t that there are no rules, it’s that you get to choose which rules you want to play by. You choose this in your clients and choice of relays. Most people will want their relay owners to respond to reports, support deletes and blocks, etc. But rather than it being some small group at a big American tech company doing the censoring it can be your friend or your peers or money or some other method you choose.

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fiatjaf 2y ago

It is never the case that most companies don't want to host your stuff, it always takes just 2 or 3 companies and you're effectively deplatformed, since your followers are all in these 2 or 3 and they can't move and they won't move.

If their clients made it easy for them to keep following you would wouldn't lose 99% of your followers as it is today, maybe about 5% due to logistics issues that we can't solve.

petri 2y ago

What worries me the most at the moment is that the next wave of people prefer more convenience and are not too willing to learn new things or pay for them.

Video hosting becomes expensive. The data needs to go somewhere. The big players will step in and introduce the same old models again: we host your media and it’s all free for you. And the rest will follow from there. Data ownership and security do not worry many people.

Email is not decentralised anymore. It just does not get deliver unless you’re part of the big players. The protocol does not matter if the monetisation model overdrives it.

Nostr needs to become so easy and convenient for the masses with the model that is decentralised and in line with the OG vision of censorship resistance etc. that is preferred over the old models that will be introduced soon (if enough people join and nostr becomes a viable alternative).

The Guy That Looked Into It 2y ago

I think the main benefit is owning your own identity. So if you are deplatformed by most big clients and relays, your followers still have the ability to find your notes in other places using the same public key. Yes, probably most of your followers won’t go through the trouble of changing clients, but those who want actually have the ability to do so. This is something unique to NOSTR.