I actually have that exact experience. I was on a Mastodon server for years, at least 4, and I had just one grievance where I went a little out of control and told someone to go fuck themselves, and because the admin and his mod team were having a bad day, or didn't like me ... I lost everything. It made/inspired me to launch my own Mastodon server, but after exploring Nostr for a little bit now, I'm starting to wonder if paying for a Mastodon server is really the best option
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Everyone eventually ends up on nostr, it’s just a matter of time.
It’s the only place on the internet where you don’t need anyone’s permission.
and man, am I tired of asking permission
And being asked for verification
It’s only once you realise you don’t need permission, that you’re finally free.
One of my biggest fears on Mastodon is saying the wrong thing, or having a bad day, and ending up with a large majority of the actual active instances silencing or blocking me, to the point where I really AM talking to no one, and that could happen to anyone on the fediverse. Like, even if you don't have anything that you want to share with the world, that's a real shitty thing to even consider as a possibility of happening
It’s true.
wait, you pay for a mastodon server?
Yeah, I've been hosting my own for a while in order to make myself immune to tyrannical admins, but it looks like I might have found another way to post and not be silenced
I tried to write my own activitypub server for the same reason, and because mastodon is bloated af. The protocol was just too complicated and it required me to run a server which most people wont be able to do and therefore will never be sovereign. its just a bad design.
try hosting a ditto instance and you get both nostr:nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhgpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcd8hw7u
aight as fun as it could sound it also applies for relays and clients doesn't write slick themselves