I basically discovered Nostr the same week I had already made a commitment to myself to start a ten year project to make a better social media protocol. I didn't want to just flake on myself without doing due diligence 🤷‍♂️

I have some criticisms/reservations about nostr too, but those are secondary. I'll write something up and get to you later.

I am interested in taking a look as soon as you can allow me -- but if you think Nostr is where it's at and your project is very similar, why not make it on top of Nostr already?

fiatjaf

Shame about Zion not using Nostr, I think Nostr is where it's at. In fact, I'm working on a very similar project in my spare time. I was planning to DM you about it when I have a MVP, but let me know if you're interested in taking a look before then.

hodlbod_fr

nostr

I'm fiatjaf of nostr, lnurl, and zebedee, AMA

Zion seems to be a moneygrab to me. They were going to use Nostr but were convinced by some very important people to migrate to ION/IdentityHub instead (because it would attract more VC money I imagine), their CEO sounds like a scammer, I don't trust them. Also I believe their tech will be shit if it ever gets finished.

Slashtags is a cool concept, but has two fatal flaws:
1. It depends on a set of JavaScript libraries that cannot be easily ported to anywhere else, this will hinder adoption.
2. They depend ultimately on a DHT and DHTs cannot ever work in scale (but they may appear to work on initial stages when no one would be using them).