11 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 14 Aug 2023 \ on: I'm not on Nostr, convince me nostr
- While you can be de-platformed (from a platform/app like X), you can't be de-protocoled (from a protocol like Nostr). Key distinction.
- No one can prevent you from sharing your note (~ tweet), no government can send emails to Nostr executives to censor someone. There are no Nostr executives.
- It supports live videostreams (there are are livestreams with people gaming, or writing code)
- It's super duper easy to send sats to anyone's note or profile, similar as here on SN we just send sats
- Since it's slightly more complicated to use it and it's not that big it means that there are not many "low quality braindead content people". There are some amazing folks like Lyn Alden, Preston Pysh, Alex Gladstein, Jack Dorsey...
- There are starting communities and if you join you can be the one to start a community (like reddit, it just uses /n/something instead of /r/something)
- You can choose your experience - there are many available clients with different focuses. Primal, Snort, Damus, Amethyst, Habla.News, Plebstr, see https://www.nostrapps.com/
- The protocol supports long posts (here's the first article I saw on habla: Bitcoin: A beacon of hope
Thank you for such a clear bullet-point overview, that's helpful. I didn't know it shares similarities with Reddit as well. The "low quality brain-dead content people" is definitely a plus.
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Really, the amazing thing about Nostr is how simple it is. You can build practically anything on top of it. OTOH there’s basic tweet-style posts, long form posting, IRC-style chat, and even video streaming. And the plus is that they all use the same ID and all have V4V.
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