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If you haven't heard of it - Nostr is a decentralized twitter alt - but uses relays as soft servers (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gnubyte@lemdit.com to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Hey folks. Just wanted to put out a good word about Nostr. I'm finding it to be pleasantly easy to use and very akin to twitter but uses soft servers in the form of relays. Its not quite moving away from servers but where decentralization is happening frequently, its nice to give that liberty back to users.

Anyways its worth a try, here are some web clients. Just make sure to save your PK its basically your login:

https://nostr.com/clients

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[–] Exec@pawb.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why would I use this instead of a Mastodon instance?

[–] czech@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw that exploding-heads moved their instance to this platform so I assume it's difficult to block objectional content.

[–] mashbooq@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

Last I saw, exploding heads gave up on it because it was too difficult to use and had too many crypto bros on it. They're trying to move to Gab now.

[–] deafboy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While you can't force people not to see things they WANT to see, it would be possible for a certain relay to moderate the content it deliveres to its clients. I feel like it will become a huge feature pretty soon, since the global feed is a hot garbage already.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] mkhoury@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, none of the things you mentioned makes me want to use it.

Thanks for the explanation though!

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe you don't really want an account one one server but rather the whole experience. Seems good nuff for that.

[–] spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As cool as the technology is behind nostr the current community is absolutely terrifying. Hopefully it can grow out of that.

[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 1 points 1 year ago

I'm so green to it I can't comment. What have you seen that's a turn off?

I see a whole lot of meme coiners over there so far lol.

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=MaxXvcr181c&t=

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] On@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

when the intro said everyone was happy before introducing the platform, I knew it was going to be a community for steaming pile of shits.

After exploring a bit, it seems I was right.