"I would like to help" -- want to run a Mastodon bridge? 😄
That's a way to instantly juice the scale and reach of Nostr.
Discussion
We already have a bridge to mastodon and in my opinion it sucks for everyone involved.
A bridge of information without a bridge for capital keeps communities in silos.
What if a zap on Nostr arrived on Mastadon in whatever currency or chain that the user wants to store. I think Bitcoin is the best, so that's what I would choose. But everyone should have their choice.
We "have" bridges, but they're functionally broken, as I've documented elsewhere...
When they work, I've had a lot of good interactions across them.. as have others that I've talked to.
They are super easy to filter if users don't want to see them. But it'd be great if they actually worked for the people who want to use them.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of bridge either. It's tempting, but it means you have some middleman who has to run the bridge. Making a bridge so that it's really usable (bidirectional communication) is extremely complicated.
Well right, the Mastodon side of the bridge has to act like any other Mastodon instance, meaning that whomever running it has to have a "moderation" policy (or even no policy, which is a policy in and of itself).
You could (for instance) only relay posts based on your Web of Trust... Which would be a transparent "moderation" policy that you could advertise to both sides of the bridge.
But it's definitely a way to bring in lots of users who care about things other than Bitcoin... 😁