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.

The source code of the app is just an HTML file, no scripting involved. The buttons just have URIs which Damus is programmed to handle. An app on iOS can choose to handle its own URIs and do things on how they are programmed to handle the URIs. It's up to the app developer and the security is down to designing them to be handled properly and safely. App developers shouldn't program URIs that do extreme things when navigated to. The website is not actually changing anything, it's just Damus app behavior already built in. You could go to the source code, copy the URI in the anchor and put it in your browser bar for the same effect.

This can be done in Android apps too, but you won't see it done as often:

Folks interested in emerging social media protocols should check out Willow. Like Bluesky’s atproto and Nostr it is inspired and built by Secure Scuttlebutts developers. It’s another approach that solves a bunch of problems in its more popular siblings.

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