Good analogy to explain nostr to non-technical folks?
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Lynn Alden compared it to email for social because you can send email from Gmail to Yahoo like you can see notes on primal or damus.
Federated microblogging
It’s like if your Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube accounts could be followed by the same pool of people and those companies couldn’t take away your followers or keep them from being able to see what you post and the followers can send you micro payments whenever they feel like it
Podcasts version of social media feeds. You can open up a bunch of different podcast players and all the same podcasts are there with all the same episodes. On social media nothing on Twitter is the same on Facebook.
Nostr separates the feed and user from the social website or app, so that it acts like podcasts. All the same friends and communities and posts on all the different apps, but you can have any features you want by choosing any app.
Nostr is twitter without the rug
Not sure there’s a great analogy other than the internet itself.
But I think the simplest explanation is an open, interoperable network for social media or other applications. A communication layer for many different ‘apps’ to work together.
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#nostr is insta, twitch, facebook, revolut, X without KYC, without censorship all in one protocol
You can open websites with Firefox, Safari, Chrome, on Android, windows and IOS.
Why? Because the sites are based on open protocols.
Nostr is an open protocol for microblogging (twitter) but also for photo posting (instagram) and video (YouTube).
If you have a Microsoft email account, you can send email directly to someone with a Google email account. That's because email is an open & decentralized protocol. It's not owned and controlled by a single company. You can even run your own email server, if that's what you're into. Nostr is the same idea, but for social media.
It’s an interesting question since so many of the things which make nostr unique are based on the combination of technologies being used.
Also it’s early, people are still experimenting out in the open. It’s exciting to be a part of, but might look unfinished to some.
Outside the technology, it is the interests and ideologies of the people who are active developers and participants that make nostr special.
I mean, “Its like Twitter+Venmo for people that have a problem with authority” is probably not what you are looking for 😂
unmoderated but transparent new www web internet that can used for social, chat, blog, web, many other things without a password. = nostr