Two levels of censorship-resistance are emerging via open protocols. One is the dns-censorship-resistance model (nostr et al 2020) which is the same model as the current web w/ replication, and subject to take downs. The second model is the bittorrent-censorship reistance model of the web (pkarr, pubky et al c. 2025) which seems to be holding its own, even against take down requests. It's trivial to upgrade users to offer both level of censorshp-resistance for nostr devs. And it will be interesting to see which clients are the first upgrade their censorship resistance, and which are the last. I think we're moving from a first gen nostr which was a proof of concept. To a second gen which actually is verifiably censorship resistant and is scale free. Exciting!

They said it was impossible! But, as of today we have de-facto solved a long-standing problem in computer science. And that is of decentralized global naming, that is human readable, and fair. 1. Register a name on the bitcoin block chain, on a first-come, first-served basis 2. Name is in an OP_RETURN and human readable 3. That name has an npub associated with it. 4. The npub publishes the name to nostr relays, and also has a pubky 5. The name is globally resolvable using pubky protocol, and has bittorrent level censorship resistance A truly censorship-resistant, human-readable, naming system that includes decentralized DNS. Quite an achievment!

Someone bought the nostr namespace on the spaces protocol for 20,000 sats. This tells me that this market is too illiquid for real price discovery.

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So twitter is now an AI company.

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[Question] Is there social tagging in Nostr?

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[Question] Is there social tagging in Nostr? · Issue #1860 · nostr-protocol/nips

I was just on a very impressive call with the Pubky team. They have an concept of "Social tagging" where you can add a tag to any post. The app doe...

Lots of OGs on the #pubky on-boarding call. Very impressive! One thing I learnt is that they will be doing social tagging from the start. This is such a great idea. Would be easy to do on nostr too.

Great news! #pubky open app will be open sourced in June after beta testing, though devs can access it too, on request. Every part of the ecosystem is already open sourced. Commerce coming by end of the year!

For me the most underated aspect of #pubky is interop. Every pubky user gets an nsec. Well it's not exactly in the nsec format, but that's about 1 line of code to transform. That gives users immediate access to the entirity of nostr dns-censorship-resistant ecosystem. PLUS all the features of bittorrent-censorship-resistance. I like it because the user can ONLY win. Cross posting between the two systems is easy. It becomes even more powerful when you consider what it offers to agents. The next evolution of the open web is starting to emerge, and whole new avenues of innovation will be unlocked. Love to see it!

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Perhaps there is a misunderstand around #pubky. Nostr is a censorship-resistant network built on DNS. Pubky is a censorshp resistant network built on BitTorrent. Anyone can build on it, or create a system based on it, depending on how much censorship resistance you are looking for. The pubky app is simply one of many possible systems built on the protocol. Nostr could adopt it, but most devs have chosed to stick with DNS, so far. Here is an explanation from the docs: Decentralized Storage Architecture > Homeservers can be operated by individuals, cooperatives, or commercial entities, with the option for anonymous operation, promoting a decentralized and resilient storage ecosystem where users could tune their preferred redundancy while maintaining the benefits of a central homeserver. https://docs.pubky.org/Explore/Pubky-Core/Homeservers View quoted note →

#pubky docs -- understanding home servers. https://docs.pubky.org/Explore/Pubky-Core/Homeservers