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Hi Danish Far, and welcome to #nostr! 🤓 I tried to ⚡️zap you some welcome sats (bitcoin), but you haven't set up a #lightning wallet for your profile yet 🥺 Doing so allows anyone to zap you some sats when they value your contribution, want to say "hi", or any other reason! The easiest option for beginners is to use the in-built wallet in the nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q app (link below). If you're feeling a bit more adventurous, a dedicated lightning wallet is also a good idea! Some nice options include the nostr:npub1kvaln6tm0re4d99q9e4ma788wpvnw0jzkz595cljtfgwhldd75xsj9tkzv, nostr:npub1h2qfjpnxau9k7ja9qkf50043xfpfy8j5v60xsqryef64y44puwnq28w8ch and nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq apps. Once you've got it sorted, be sure to post a note including #checkmyaddy and I'll try to zap you again! If you need help, just ask 😊 https://yakihonne.com/yakihonne-mobile-app-links I can also help people check their #nostr address is working (if they have one). Nostr addresses are not mandatory, but some people like using them to add a personal touch to their profile. Once you've set it up, just post a note including #checkmyaddy and I'll check it again for you. If you like, I can give you one for free at "yourname@minestr.app". Just get in touch! 😊 Made with 💚 by nostr:npub1mlnersd9cup2n3p5xrytccgfa73p4resxe5a2ljq9rez2ancr8usmnu7x8

My biggest issue with mastodon/activitypub is that your account is tied to an instance. So if the instance admin bans you you have to start over. With nostr you control your keys and social graph. This means noone can ban you and moving between relays is easy.

why can't Nostr be Mastodon w owning your ID? That would solve 1 million problems

isnt that ditto

Ditto is............a fraction of what Fediverse software currently is.

activitypub is also over complicated and inflexible. I tried to build an activitypub node and failed. Apparently im too retarded to build one.

You are right. can't you replace all the retarded activitypub bits with nostr ? The administrative and federation side of activitypub is superior

can you be specific? What parts are superior? On nostr there’s not much to administrate.

I don’t know anything about mastodon, but I heard it’s not as fun

Take for instance Pleroma: Everything you can think if is configurable 1. You can control uploads , CDN/s3 2. MRF rules to filter the relay from bad domains to keywords, 3. Set Retention policies for local and federated posts 4. Media Proxy 5. Rate limiters 6. SMTP mailers 7. Administrative GUI 8. A job queue so you never miss posts, very efficient federation compared to nostr 9. Search Plugins

These seem like client features to me, or features not relevant to nostr since it doesn’t put an emphasis on smart servers/relays (which is good)

That's a nostr design flaw Spam and abuse is easily dealt with on the Fediverse. Nostr acting like a notepad file open to the public is not working well

It’s worse on the fediverse. Mastodon caches all the media on every instance . It makes it harder to remove CP everywhere

no, the Fediverse does not cache all images by default, You have to configure it to do that. Many do not because of what you said and bandwith

fediverse is inbox model, nostr is outbox. both have their strengths and weaknesses. I like smart clients and dumb servers, fediverse is dumb clients and smart servers. I think smart clients give the most power to the users, which is why its superior for freedom and digitial sovereignty without needing to be technical.

If it’s easy to remove CP on nostr, how exactly is nostr censorship resistant? Seems to me if it’s truly censorship resistant, then removing CP is a real problem.

nostr doesn’t host media.

I want you to be right! That would make everything simple but...reality is different. We are being spam attacked right now

Who is we. I’m not

But it makes it pretty easy to show media hosted elsewhere. And aren’t blossom servers moving towards media hosting?

Yuup I just saw a post by a user today with screenshot of their post being taken down on Mastadon because they did the wrong kind of political speech. 🫤

Is there a way to pull bluesky posts into nostr?

Yes

Yes and that structure affects (over complicates) the UX too

This is so fundamental ! Nostr is really the social network Bitcoin !

They banned me for talking about Dune the movie and Bitcoin

It's not really easy to remove CP on Nostr. Maybe just easier than on Mastodon.

Welcome to Nostr! Feel free to follow me if you like any of these subjects: I'm a soundscape musician, write about Philosophy, Bitcoin, Nostr, Parenting, Gaming, Anime, and regularly post homemade memes. ✌️

Activitypub won't scale to Twitter level users. Nostr will. And the account hijacking by admins is a big risk.

Yes! But how to make it a social media of all topics and not just limited to bitcoin or crypto.

Absolutely!

Totally agree, this is why I could never get onboard with Mastodon. The structure is unreliable.

You mean your posts? Or others posts? For the fist you can use OpenVibe I think

welcome brother. nostr, like bitcoin, is rules without rules. mastodon is a world full of tiny fiefdoms, each with its own ruler. there, rules can do do change on a whim. here, rules are nearly impossible to change

rules without rulers, oops

Censorship resistance is a double edged sword. As Thomas Sowell says, “There are no solutions, only trade offs”. I’m ok with the death penalty for CP as one of those trade offs.

I also got banned from my "free speech" instance by talking about bitcoin

Welcome! Here's a good starting place to get caught up 👇 nostr:nevent1qqsdhmu9sazj5u5p87s5j0pc20u7rthqxqhjclhsmxsk8f9645mfvwcpremhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet59upzqqqcklhr87e98ppk88rzu2f0a3cq56df8vywud6vt0dfw8ym89tyqvzqqqqqqyak3cps

Welcome, @Danish🌱⚡️

This is true. I believe CP is one of the very few exceptions to the general opposition to censorship. The question is, how do you do it surgically so that other, acceptable content doesn't get caught up in the net?

It brings up an interesting question. If you can surgically censor something as abhorrent as CP, then you can also surgically censor other forms of speech. And I’m not even sure how you can censor it. Any asshole can create an nsec, link to abhorrent content, post it to multiple relays, and tag it as asknostr. You can ban that npub, but creating another one is trivial. And it’s not like cloaking IPs is difficult. It seems like it becomes a game of whack-a-mole in which any jackass can easily ruin your experience if you happen to be looking at content based on an innocent tag.