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Post from @rabble on why he's chosen to use #Nostr and not #ActivityPub and the #Fediverse. He makes some compelling points. Personally I am not too worried about the server admin parts of his argument (I have enough control, even if I don't control the server), but I agree that this isn't ideal:

"You can’t use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one."
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@ricmac Of the issues that @rabble raises the one that I think is the most important to address is:

"Each kind of fediverse server is isolated. You can use a Peertube instance to federate with other Peertubes for video, or Mobilizon for meetup-style events, or Pixelfed for Instagram-like photo sharing, or WriteFreely for blogs. But each of these is isolated. I need a new account on an instance of each of these servers. They all run the same protocol, but they aren’t actually interoperable. You can’t use a single fediverse identity with your profile and followers in Peertube, Mobilizon, WriteFreely, and Pixelfed. You need a totally separate account in each one. With Nostr, you can use dozens of apps all with your same identity, content, and followers."

cc @evan @Gargron @dansup @JsonCulverhouse @greg @emilynguyen

Mike McCue

@ricmac @rabble @evan @Gargron @dansup @JsonCulverhouse @greg @emilynguyen

Having said that, I think that has far more adoption today than Nostr and that is only going to accelerate as more networks federate in the coming months. While Nostr has a lot of interesting ideas we can learn from, it is also quite arcane and requires an encryption key just to use it. That sets up a hard stop for non-technical people (i.e. mainstream audiences) to ever adopt it.

@mike The centralization of Nostr relay services more or less makes the whole point of "take your identity with you" pointless anyway. Nostr fundamentally has *no* storage mechanism by design -- it's a pubsub system! With no message delivery guarantees.

Comparing the two protocols is, frankly, silly. It's like comparing PostgreSQL to RabbitMQ. Anyone with real life experience managing and optimizing data flows around event systems knows how fragile it is and why the whole concept is a joke.

Key based identity? Alright Bitcoin bros, DIDs are a thing and people are already experimenting with them. By people who have been doing pki for their entire lives.

The NIH attitude has resulted in a fundamentally flawed architecture ultimately in the name of "simplicity" caused by lack of experience and patience. The only reason it's still around is because of some VC funding that is already drying up.

@mike @ricmac @rabble @evan @Gargron @dansup @JsonCulverhouse @greg @emilynguyen sounds like a usability problem

What is the hard stop for a non-techy?