Nice overview. When I first joined nostr, I was still spending 90% of my time on twitter. Since then I've watched the content grow and it feels closer to 50%/50%. Also, my mind gravitates to nostr and I check it first. Fun watching it grow!

I spent a few days on each taking in the vibe.

X is nothing but vitriol and bots. Engagement is just how many people react to your notes. There actually isn't any conversation, just people talking at each other.

Bluesky is performance theatre. The people seem nice and polite but the notes are just virtue signalling to each other. No one is talking about their real life or anything beyond the superficial.

Nostr is a odd collection of Bitcoiners, techies, and misfits who hang out on the edges. There is actual conversation and exchanges of ideas. People talk about their day and aspirations.

lol, Alby added a donation box into Alby go that cannot be dismissed unless you donate (I think, I couldn’t find a way to dismiss it).

That’s one way to get people to pay 🤣

Perhaps # of follows should be confirmed with each posting of an updated follow list.

It’s random.

It’s definitely related to clients not finding the latest and greatest follow list, then publishing an old one.

#Bitcoin has a larger market cap than the three largest banks in the world combined.

IC Bank of China: $280B

Bank of America: $356B

JP Morgan Chase: $684B

#Bitcoin will do to banks what email did to the postal industry.

Blue Sky looks fun 😂 nostr:note1j5fj83ne72wzv6gzh9dqga78jpme0adspd88dj4vvmkz0evr5qgq97u450

Couldn’t sleep at all last night. Stayed up till 2:30 listening to Odell and Calle. Then on and off eyes shut for 10 minutes each time before waking up. Maybe got like 30 mins of uninterrupted sleep at the very end…

Best channel on YouTube!

Need to onboard Grant to #Nostr. nostr:note1dkrpqvsqmeh88nnp3wgy2xl7g4g9d7z57vpl7x3sevsk9uaukr4szm6akr

So the guy who made nostr:nprofile1qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnsdaehgetj9ecxcctrv5hszxthwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skctcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy08wumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttsw43zuam9d3kx7unyv4ezumn9wshsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qqsz0uvxypxl7e4xzt6cfnz7rmfqmr6rh4a4vurdkx09d3vacnvk9jswuz4lu is a pilot?

What techniques nostr relays/clients deploy to prevent spreading of csam?

I don’t really understand this kind of criticism (and not to pick on Will here, it seems to be from ~everyone).

Bluesky took a different approach - first build a product people want whose technology supports decentralization, and add the features the geeks want later. It’s easy to shit on their lack of decentralization, but Bluesky has made clear and consistent progress on that front since day one, and I assume they will continue to do so.

The result has been a product that’s growing (those user stats are pretty realistic, doubly so when you look at the number of accounts actually posting real content) way more than nostr with tons of anti-centralization features that nostr is missing (anyone can create a feed algorithm, and there are many, decentralized content tagging is a really cool innovation - different “adult content” tagging services, opt-in different moderation services, etc).

The federated model of Mastodon led to a trainwreck of fiefdoms run by weirdly obsessive and controlling mods, but Bluesky took that and addressed the issues by splitting moderation from hosting.

Sure, Bluesky’s hosting model means you don’t get the relay-redundancy that sets nostr’s censorship resistance apart, but that’s not all that hard to add in the future (with the sync assumption they make making it easier to make efficient, too).

Building the kinds of stuff Bluesky has on nostr is gonna take a huge investment, we can’t leave folks like Will stuck building critical nostr apps by himself. nostr:note1vpteqdxxlgkjndhghhlu4n47aj2sra5vgmdr465y4yfzwcshglvqrqann4