Have you any thoughts on Zion?
Discussion
do not think zion will be able to compete with the organic viral growth of nostr 🤙
No. I agree. It’s too static. Maybe it could function as some kind of application upon Nostr?
Any insight into BlueSky Social? Is that a competitor?
Correct!
Bluesky and Zion allow users to self-host their data.
• Nostr distributes data across remote relays but the relays don’t sync/talk to each other [no syncing = less Sybil attack risk].
• IPFS distributes data across remote relays but it can sync the data relays host [syncing = high Sybil attack risk].
IPFS stores data as merkle trees and has synchronization, but it lacks the unforgeable costliness that creates Sybil defense.
Nostr lacks synchronization and is confined to the mutual relay model. This model is inherently small scale, but it minimizes Sybil risk by sacrificing traffic/talking between relays.
The scalability solution succeeding Nostr would be Sybil-resistant synchronization across relays, but so far bitcoin is the only P2P network to achieve this. #[4]
Zion could become a NOSTR client 🤙