Does someone has a brief (not too technical) history of the previous attempts to create something like /similarish to Nostr social network ?
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I don't know if anything entirely like Nostr was tried before, maybe SSB, but I'm not an SSB nerd and don't know much about it.
Uh. Thanks.
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If you don't need a blockchain angle search for MacGirvins friendica & red networks, also diaspora, gnu social & mastodon
Defining the box is hard. There was a Cambrian explosion of P2P apps for file sharing and communication in the 2000s that were "social networks" of a type, but that was before "social media" existed. XMPP and Usenet were both similar to nostr in ways as well. Freenet is another good example.