Last week i gave a quick 6 minute talk about #Nostr and the #Fediverse at the Fediforum online conference. A recording of the talk is now online. Apologies for any errors or bumbling of the presentation, it was 4am.
In the breakout session later a lot of people were excited about what Nostr can do and they were envious of our apps, interoperability, and ability to monetize. They were held back by the fact that, for them, they've got a way of grouping a community based on a server with a focus on the local timeline, and they felt the instance way of managing behavior worked for them. I, like most folks here, think the coupling of identity, content, with trust and safety in a single instance is fundamentally broken. It's the HOA problem. What stuck out at me was if we could provide an alternative to HOA server admins, that helped bring users together in a community and also let them opt in to a moderation / trust and safety system, they'd be interested in Nostr as an alternative to the ActivityPub based fediverse.
