Saying that #Bluesky is for pedophiles is such a ridiculous and preposterous claim. Every social media site likely has a few pedophiles lurking there if you look hard enough, including Nostr. And every site takes action to remove them if they are discovered.

In my experience, it’s pretty great over there. I like it. There is a vibrant and active community of users, which is more that can be said of many of the X alternatives.

The ATprotocol approach to achieving decentralization is different to Nostr but there is a lot to like: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239

I’m digging all the animated avatars on here. Are people making these themselves? How can I make my own?

Yes, the fee per transaction will be high, but there will be very few transactions occurring on the main chain. Will it be enough? Why would more transactions occur on the main chain as fees drop? Do lightning/liquid nodes have an incentive to “settle up”?

They are striking a balance between ease of use and full control. Most normies don’t want have to deal with keys. Given that you can now self host you should now have full control of your keys though it is early days and the process is clunky. That said Nostr could learn a lot from Bluesky’s focus on removing the complexity of decentralization.

Thought for the day: If #Bitcoin fees become so high that the majority of everyday transactions can only be conducted on second layer networks like #Lightning and #Liquid, how will transaction fees alone be able to sustain miners once the payout for each block reward falls below the average transaction fee? 🤔

#APprotocol is locked open by design so that even if #Bluesky (the company) was bought by Musk or went out of business, the protocol will survive. A good read: https://bsky.social/about/bluesky-and-the-at-protocol-usable-decentralized-social-media-martin-kleppmann.pdf

As much as I believe in Bitcoin, this is why I have also always believed in DigiByte as well. The world needs a coin that can scale on chain and Bitcoin can’t do that in its current form. Lightning has a lot of problems to overcome and is struggling to deliver.

What do you mean?

Hey #Nostr devs! This service lets anyone create a domain-based community on #Bluesky with each user getting a sub-domain handle: https://github.com/mozzius/community-handles

Would anyone be able to make it support NIP-05 as well so that the same sub-domain handle can be used on both services? I’ve tried to do it myself but my limited #JavaScript skills and zero experience with #React leave my stumped. Can you help? #NIP05

One major downside to #Nostr is that it is way too Bitcoiner heavy. It turns the average user away. It’s all people seem to talk about on here. #Bluesky is full of people who say they tried Nostr but didn’t like it because it was too crypto oriented. Irrational that may be, but it is a factor in its inability to build communities beyond crypto. Nostr is bigger than Bitcoin. It needs to be more welcoming and it will remain in niche.

I’m a fan of both Nostr and Bluesky. Two great projects, with more or less the same goals of decentralising social media using open protocols, but with different approaches.

Personally I think that one of Bluesky’s strengths over is that it is very easy to use, whilst allowing accounts to be portable. That said it has not yet federated so we shall see how that goes. The problem with Mastodon is that account portability is not easy - it just create lots of smaller walled gardens rather one big one.

As for Threads, it is really no better than Twitter right now, just different. Just because a lot of people signed up to check it out does not mean they will stick with it long term. As long as it relies on the advertising model it will rapidly and inevitably enshittify itself.

I think both Bluesky and Nostr will continue to grow, whatever happens with Theeads.

I need my votes on my poll: https://twitter.com/saltedlolly/status/1655925295453466624?s=46

Nostr’s biggest current limitation, compared to say #Bluesky, is its complexity. Bluesky is decentralized but the complexity of decentralization is hidden from the user. It has the ease of use of a centralized app, which is a major plus for mainstream adoption.

Nostr needs to create better solutions for handling public/private keys. It also needs to make it seamless to move your message history from one relay to another. I want to be able to add my own relay and have the option to copy all my historic posts to it. Not just the new ones.

It's a strange experience jumping from #nostr to #bluesky to #twitter and back. Each feels completely different while many of the same people are present on all three.

I am trying to wean myself of Twitter, there is something irresistible about watching a “rapid unplanned dissasembly” from within.

Today I made a decision to scale back my #Twitter usage, and will no longer be a regular user. I have not deleted my Twitter account, but I have deleted the Twitter app from all my devices and will no longer be using Twitter except occasionally. I will not be responding to DMs or mentions. I am moving to Nostr and Bluesky full time. The community is smaller but it is more exciting place to focus my attention. Decentralized social media is the future, so that is where I want to be.

I bought a new T-shirt. #ifyouknowyouknow

Once you’ve discovered #nostr, it’s mastodone.

That movie was another milestone - there are moments in it where your mouth just drops open at what you are seeing. The line between CGI and live footage is no longer possible to discern. Sure, the plot is a bit hokey, and three and a half hours of blue people running about isn’t for everyone, but like the Abyss, T2, Titanic and Avatar it takes cinema in new and interesting directions and raises the bar on what is possible. James Cameron is a trailblazer, and I loved it. It was a spectacular cinematic experience.

PS IMAX 3D is the way to experience it.