How to say that you are not a decentralized network without saying that you are not a decentralized network.
The US state of Mississippi has an age verification law that requires social media platforms to identify the age of all users. Bluesky has refused and blocks users from connecting from Mississippi.
Here’s the Bluesky story https://www.myprivacy.blog/mississippis-age-verification-law-and-the-bluesky-standoff-a-critical-analysis/?ref=compliancehub.wiki
And how Mastodon instances are responding https://www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentralized-resistance-how-mississippis-digital-id-law-met-its-match-with-mastodon/
Have anybody in the Nostr ecosystem considered this? Are clients doing KYC on users? Anyone blocking Mississippi?
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I had many people ask me why I build on Nostr and not ATprotocol at MozFest. And the answer is two fold, one the protocol is easier to build on, and two nostr is permissionless. I’ve never been very good at asking permission.
Permissionlessness is very appealing :)
We should try to get the CEO of Nostr to comment for the article.
It's the only way to live
How did the announcement go? Hows the reception?
And what I like about reading notes like this, is that I can leverage the insights of someone more technical than me, to make better decisions myself
Keep building!
YUP everything else comes later.
wasting time in other protocol / platform which can blocked / changed isn't worth the time
Realistically though nostr has 10k daily active users, and that's been flat for 2 years. And there are like 1,000 nostr apps. So unless you're a core client team or something then whatever you build here you're building for like 100 people. On a good day.