Exactly. And with Nostr, even though it is not built on a whole new protocol, it is still truly decentralised. It is loosely comparable to Tor. A load of data being bounced around nodes using cryptography for privacy and authentication.

Compare to Mastodon, which isn't really decentralised in any meaningful way. Yes on a technical level it has interoperability between instances but... that's it. It's deliberately not designed for censorship resistance because the CEO likes censorship. And yes, it's a company with a CEO, it is a product from a corporation.

The UX is terrible and you have to sign up to a specific instance. Once you do, by giving it an email and password like any other social media, the admin of it decides what you can and can't see from the rest of the "fediverse," Censorship is rampant, and if they get bored and stop paying their hosting bill you lose everything.

And yet that's the "decentralised" platform the media is focusing on, lmao.

Nostr is what decentralised social media should be. It shows you can base a decentralised platform on existing infrastructure without compromising privacy and censorship resistance.

Onboarding is frictionless and anonymous, and the feature set is being built out organically by the community according to their needs.

Since Nostr started getting big I honestly barely even check the bird app anymore.

Wrote a whole post on my self-hosted Nostr powered blog about this last night.