nostr:npub1f4faufazfl4cf43c893wx5ppnlqfu4evy2shc4p9gknfe56mqelsc5f7ql has a really good article about nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m’s leaving the Bluesky board, support of Nostr, and the recent interview.
I mostly agree with the article but I think there’s more than just that Bluesky is taking on a corporate platform prespective with the roll out of the atproto. It’s that Bluesky is engaged in a kind of closed protocol design that feels heavy like xml and java. It’s open source like Android is…
My hope is that nostr:npub1pu3vqm4vzqpxsnhuc684dp2qaq6z69sf65yte4p39spcucv5lzmqswtfch can be the super easy to use for normies app for Nostr. We’ve got a much bigger and more interesting ecosystem of apps. Nostr is a lot easier to work with than atproto for developers. But it’s also super confusing to new users. Wallet setup is hard, registering a username is hard, understanding how to login to nostr web apps with browser extensions is hard. We can solve these problems, but it takes work.
We’re about to launch the creator and journalism residencies to help bring a diversity of content beyond our core bitcoiner community which is sustaining Nostr.
Take a read:
Also it's an attempt at psychologizing Jack:
- "oh he is just afraid of Bluesky moderation because he had a trauma with Twitter moderation as people called him names"
- "again he is wary of the fact that Bluesky has a board because he lived through bad moments at the Twitter board"
The psychologizing is an interesting point
Jack talks about censorship 3 times in his interview
"Nostr is weird and hard to use, but if you truly believe in censorship resistance and free speech, you have to use the technologies that actually enable that, and defend your rights"
"We need different options if we truly believe in censorship resistance."
"this whole ‘freedom of speech, not reach,’ is yet another tool of censorship"
Mike mentions it only once only and in the context of denial
"And no, it wasn’t just “censoring conservatives” (a thing that didn’t really happen)."
So we can say that the psychologizing of Jack (sorry Jack) is incomplete
Psychologizing aside
If Bluesky is decentralized how did they deplatform users?
Has anyone ever been deplatformed from Nostr?
