What is Nostr? What does it mean to you?
Discussion
Hope
How so?
I am a Linux user since 2010, at the same time I discovered the Mises institute and started reading everything, then I became a libertarian. Bitcoin was hope for some time, some time became years...nostr is everything I always dreamed about the Foss world, now I feel much more hope than in the last years, but it's upon us to create and use the freedom solutions.
Personal goals: friendship and community and a resilient reliable communication if something really important happens/comes up.
Nostr in general:
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Its a mix of feelings of something new, good vibes environment, freedom and the most important technology of the world!
Friendship in freedom
Freedom and community 🤍🕊️
Nostr is an event-sharing protocol, right? I don't think that's what you meant though.
Currently it's chaos, a new big bang for the internet. It is malleable, it could be the future, but right now it's a space for a community of humans.
This is a great explanation. Thanks.
It’s us, but unfiltered.
this is simple, yet beautiful. i often say that nostr is just humans being humans, a phrase i borrowed the legend himself nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s
A attempt at freedom of speech/information
A place to have some fun
A hobby
it's a hobby with a lot of damn potential 😉
What is nostr, a protocol.
What is a protocol? Protocols are a set of rules outlining how connected devices communicate across a network to exchange information easily and safely. Protocols serve as a common language for devices to enable communication irrespective of differences in software, hardware, or internal processes.
What does this protocol called nostr mean to me?
Real freedom of speech on social media.
But options are LIMITLESS.
Indeed do wonder what isseus will present it self on scale but pushing many people in the room can lead to solutions , i will be here for it
Nostr is an unfinished dream, a beautiful chaotic mess of ideas being put into practice, an incredible place to learn, and a great place to meet new friends.
tl;dr
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Free exchange of informations.
Introduction to practical use of btc.
Users with different views, but never aggressive.
Many clients with many different specialisations.
Active presence of devs and protocol creators.
A huge lot of crazy people 😁
It is the best place to be on the internet. It means I can be myself and discuss any topic. It means I can pay for content I enjoy and support with no limitations! True internet freedom
Social media on my terms
i believe this is an important idea to get across to new and potential users that nostr IS on your terms, for the very first time, you're fully in control.
Nostr is the social media that you want it to be - you can make it how you want
It’s important to distinguish nostr from the current user base on most public relays.
Do you wish you had a better twitter or a better Facebook? You can with nostr
The next stage in the evolution of the internet.
A simple, open protocol being used by a peer-to-peer network of computers specifically to allow its users to have borderless social interactions, information-broadcasting and value transfer between each other without requiring a global state (in both computer scientific and political terms).
But if the network should decide so, the protocol can be more than or less than that as it is open source.
I don't know if it will scale. I don't know if it will work.
But it is an important step towards building a better social internet for the generations that come after me as were other protocols like activitypub, the at protocol, secure scuttlebutt, etc.
A chance at having a truly decentralized social medium.
It’s still in its infancy, but it shows promise and has a lot of potential.
funstr
Think we'll be able to replace DNS with something more decentralized on the future?
Love this updated graphic BTW!
Maybe NOSTR could make DNS irrelevant in the future.
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SMTP, DNS and TLS are entirely captured and centralized. FTP is highly insecure anddiscouraged nowadays.
Not very good company tbh.
Okay toss an S in front of FTP and we'll consider that fixed.
DNS isn't centralized. It's decentralized by design. Anyone can run a DNS server. Registrars maybe? But those are a dime a dozen too.
SMTP is only medium-centralized because it's a pain in the ass to run a mail server now due to spam. Anyone can still run a mail server and put in the work to make it not get blacklisted.
I don't get how TLS is centralized since we have dozens of entities that can issues certificates.
The protocols themselves are not centralized since a protcol is just a spec anyone can follow and build their own universe from scratch.
My critique is about how these protocols are used in practice. Because of their design, some centralize more easily than others.
You can run all the DNS servers you want but they have a single source of truth: 12 Root authoritive servers run by ICANN.
Freedom to use an SMTP mail is meaningless when 99% of potential receipients will just use a big email provider that will auto flag your niche personal mail server as spam. It's literally a cabal.
TLS is obviously centralized since your certificates have to be attested by an approved Certificate Authority in order to be accepted in web browsers and OSs. There's maybe less than a 100 CAs and they all have to be approved by browser vendors, aka Google.
#nostr embodies remembrance as a means to free one from the Ministry of Truth, and it does this for the [global] neighborhood.
NOSTR es el yoga de mi vida
Me encontré con personas increíbles, todos con valores
En cambio en otras redes sociales están todos muy enojados y te atacan mucho.
Acá hay paz y encima la libertad del dinero como btc
Hope.
Liberty
Free speach
Promise.
Mean I don't have to worry about logging in and find my account was banned.