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If I remember correctly they contacted me and I had a call with a guy from Twitter where he told me Bluesky's goals were to build a protocol for which Twitter could become a client in the future, to which I said Nostr was a perfect match, then he asked me if I would consider becoming the lead Bluesky person they would pick for leading the effort, and I said ok but asked if it would be acceptable if I just used Nostr as it was as "the Bluesky" without considering the other proposals and he didn't know what to say.

Then he put me in a secret group chat with some other people including SSB people, Mastodon people, the GUN guy and people from a bunch of useless IPFS projects. Supposedly the group was gathered to work together in creating this Bluesky protocol, but I read the entire conversation and it was 100% people just shilling their own projects, so I talked a little about Nostr and the first feedback I got was: "how do we ban people? it looks like it would be very hard to ban", so I said that was the idea and the conversation ended. Maybe Jay Graber was in this chat, but I don't remember reading any messages from her.

Some time after that supposedly this group produced a "report" containing all decentralized protocols in existence and a comparison between them, but it didn't include Nostr. I think the group didn't produce anything and this was likely a solo effort from Jay. The group continued its useless, sparse conversation and Bluesky the company was created through some other means of communication.

I met someone who is as working on IPFS once. He seemed like a bright guy with the intention to really create something that was censorship resistant, but I am not technical enough to assess the project.

I'm curious if anyone has an explanation or blog post about why IPFS is not practical. I'd like to understand it and share it with him as a counterpoint.

I've been trying to recruit him to nostr because his ethos seems to be aligned.

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I use IPFS Desktop, but it doesn't have enough adoption to make it worth the time. At least it doesn't take up a lot of bandwidth. A nostr client to post/share IPFS hashes of content would be really cool, but that's way beyond my skills to put together.