E-cash mints are going to be considered the same as mixers. There’s no way that they allow mixers to pretend they’re like some noble and honest institutions.

Monero is better because it doesn’t require you to bet on the good will of others. Bitcoin just inherently relies too much on assuming the good will of authorities

All it says is that you replaced the keys. And the messages are handled with an “encrypted communication channel”. I assume that means that chats are hosted centrally on Nunchuk servers? There’s no mention of an alternative protocol for the message passing itself.

I remember telling them years ago that the reliance on matrix was terrible. Are they still using it for the message passing though? They don’t mention what protocol replaced matrix, if any.

I don’t think it’s enough to simply have sub keys. You need a different signing system like Pubky has where you barely ever touch the primary key at all. It just lives on pkarr or whatever

Just do a hardfork of the identity portion of Nostr.

If you think nostr is “too big” to do that right now, you’re only kidding yourself. This place is a ghost down. Just re-do it from scratch. nostr:note1smrykncuyz47f3hww6e5mzvkxnehxatm5svt9dp9l24fjec0m0csfsezxv

I saw a YouTube video comparing their rLCD to actual e-paper and decided not to buy the daylight. In side by side comparison, I really really prefer the actual e paper.

1. Not relying on just one single email server. Could have a few to ensure maximum uptime and reach.

2. Identity not linked to just one email server.

But yeah there could be improvements to 2… but how do we improve 2 while still getting benefit of 1

Now imagine Delta Chat, but replacing the email components with Nostr nostr:note1ftgu5sgxd3fscczh3mzdk8jqqa8ew2vq06grgepymn8pskvqtvjs606llz

Nostr is truly the Bitcoin of social media 😂

New media has already shifted to curators and influencers as opposed to ads. Nostr will do the same

Allows multiple profiles in app too

https://delta.chat/ is actually a fantastic messenger now. Setup is absolutely simple. No messing with usernames, email, or passwords at all.

Uses https://www.iroh.computer/ for P2P connections. Uses encrypted email for non-P2P connections. Secure mini web apps in the chats.

I forgot about Iroh! It’s a shame that not many apps use it yet. I heard about it through the Delta Chat blog. I’m going to revisit this. Needs a simple messaging app like Keet tbh.

> Matrix is better than Xmpp because it does encryption well, it does VoIP well and it does group chat well.

I used to think this too, but after using XMPP for myself, I honestly felt lied to. XMPP is more robust, less buggy, more decentralized, and most importantly less bloated. Matrix adding federation (like server sync) is pointless at best and a privacy nightmare at worst.

And a decade later Matrix is still chasing the “emulate discord” vision. I really think it’s just a salary / job security to those people now.

I completely agree. I think the default for messaging / social media should be private. People should have to go out of their way to boost their signal beyond their normal social circle.

I think these protocols should really mirror much more closely how real life works. We already know what works IRL, let’s use that as a starting point and go from there.

Something really unnatural about how public social media works by default.

I wonder if something like Keet messenger would interest you as well (along with signal, matrix)

Btw, it’s been a decade and I still don’t know why matrix is better than xmpp. If anything, we have just learned that xmpp “failed” for reasons totally unrelated to technology or protocol

In that case, the killer app of nostr is running your own relay. Which probably .1% of nostr users do.

Based on your recent thoughts about decentralized social, did you sort of lose interest in the social application of pkarr in general?

What are you moving towards in terms of that line of thinking?

Apps like https://fraidyc.at have solved this problem without algorithms.

Just order the activity by most recent person instead of by most recent content.

I have more followers here than I do on twitter and I get way less engagement here.

Nostr is like Bitcoin. It’s only good for whales. nostr:note1nh4sq9vjkd8tu8t0y8rq6g5knpe7slxy0875qzj8zrear655amrsctkpr9

I agree. Sometimes you just need to experience the alternative to appreciate what you had.

Biggest issue with Nostr is lack of engagement. The chronological timeline is just aids. One person that posts a lot could drown out 20 interesting things from people that rarely post.

And because most developers don’t care about users, they’ll never address it.

Is anyone on planet earth hiring*?

* American citizens