I'm sure you're on top of this but the quickest summary:
1. Not a blockchain (Bitcoin for payments is optional)
2. Own your identity and community. (public/private keys sign into any new Nostr based client or service that comes along and you bring in all your history and follows/ers )
3. Own your data. (Data is distributed among a number of relays that you trust, but its yours. Responsibility on you to back it up privately and to use relays that'll keep it available.)
4. Not just Twitter, but also basically any type of text based app we have today, just needs a client implementation for Nostr and all current apps can be replicated in Nostr. Discord (without voice), Reddit, Forums, comment sections on web pages, AOL chat rooms, anything, but it's all the same message content.
#[2] weird twitframe bug here.
damus test client. snort.social web has zaps too
It's more like the merger of a like and a tip, I think. A tip requires the extra step of defining an amount to get an invoice, where this would have a configuration set amount and the invoice comes right up for quick payment.
Twitter's attack on them. Demanding payment, now, to access their community. Incentives are to migrate somewhere. There's nowhere other than Nostr that isn't the same deal as Twitter. Here you own your community, identity and data.
I think those require an invoice, and don't support the lightning URL thing.
Iris is the best for free relays, it's is more of a friends of friends thing, or something. That kind of filtering is coming for some relays, but it lets you use the main big relays and still see friends of friends, extended following list, type global.
I think there are fundamentally 2 good technical take-aways.
1. Bitcoin lacks fungibility. 1 sat != 1 sat. There is surveillance and taint and now this.
2. Bitcoin is the most permanent monument upon which to write things, even if it's meant for transactions; it is obviously desirable to put other fancy things on there, like contracts, titles, nfts, etc. if you want to truly depend upon them for real life reasons.
I believe both of these issues are addressed by Roll-ups tech, and I'm hopeful that this Ordinals stuff will push people to accept some soft-forked changes to Bitcoin to enable such a thing.
Nothing is bad for Bitcoin. It's anti-fragile. It's competition for blockspace so it's only bad for certain usrs of Bitcoin.
yeah, I need some gif search. I'm so lazy. lol
I believe this is what Iris.to is doing, it works. It's not exactly friends of friends, but it's like... craw your posts, likes, and those real people's likes, posts, etc, for everything.
You can build a graph of the whole network and spammers are an order of magnitude less connected than damn near everyone else.
