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175 sats \ 5 replies \ @kepford 26 Jul 2023 \ on: Twitter's email to the user with the @X handle before seizing it: nostr

Elon is a jerk but you are right. The only solution is Nostr or something decentralized. Elon owns all the user names. He just wanted that one.

200 sats \ 2 replies \ @brianh 27 Jul 2023

How does Nostr compare to the ActivityPub protocol? I've been using sites like Mastodon and Lemmy recently, don't know much about Nostr

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @deleted231216 27 Jul 2023

Also interested in a technical/UX comparison between Nostr and ActivityPub.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead OP 27 Jul 2023

Nostr is the protocol and there's a bunch of clients. Uses pub/private keys and is easier to get started imo. Damus is a popular client for mobile, Snort and Iris are for desktop. You can attach any Lightning wallet you want. Hotbed of distributed computing innovation currently, lots of work to be done. But I'd argue engagement is up there and like Stacker, less like Twitter where it's essentially a no-fly zone without a blue check. Engagement also happens to be why people like Reddit, there's not an equal reason. Facebook/Meta was always more for your small circle, not casuals.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @mallardshead OP 27 Jul 2023

Yes. To me, social media should no longer be controlled by single men, VC's, or investing interests. It's become too influential. The recent censorship of political dissidents abroad during elections at the request of dictators was actually my final straw, I've just been too casual about it to leave. I was outspoken about FaceBook's shenanigans previously, and would be a hypocrite to stay, now that another option clearly exists—Nostr. When Twitter rolls out the payments infrastructure, it'll be worse than Worldcoin in my opinion, because I'd argue WeChat is worse than Worldcoin, which is Twitter's ambition. Fuck that. The US has exceedingly strong laws protecting businesses (in relative terms to the rest of the developed world), which is good, so it's really on us to figure our out of this panopticon, instead of allowing social media to encroach even further, now into our intimate financial lives.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guts 27 Jul 2023

I am also recommending alternatives to Reddit as Lemmy. Since the hunt of third party apps the exodus and development of new clients went really fast. You have Apollo like PWA client as Voyager and mlmym for old.reddit theme.