Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Synonym has tried to build their own “Bitcoin web” in the past. An unnecessarily complicated and bloated ecosystem. Their most recent pivot is Pubky as they try to grasp onto what remains of the market that hasn’t been captured by Nostr. All they do is reinventing the wheel for corporate capture. ActivityPub solved a problem in what they thought was the best way. And to be fair it was good for its time. Now ATproto is trying to leverage a similar design but with more marketing bullshit and a new platform to capture people. Pubky is no different. Nostr solved a problem and they are looking for the newest marketing hypeshit to push, so they can capture users.

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τέχνη 4 months ago

Your cool idea here is “we can build pubky on Nostr”. And I would be excited by that bc it’s like Nostr for normal people. So obviously there is value in Pubky. Because we wouldn’t have been spurred to have these discussions without it.

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Garbage nsec garbagensec@NostrAddress.com 4 months ago

Nostr is infinitesimally tiny in the grand scheme of things. It's fun and I like a lot about it, but a healthy-sized and growing user base it is not. I have no issue with some particularly entity leading something as long as it's open. I mean the world wide web itself was just a browser out of Cern. They didn't release the code and royalties till 1993. Then Mosaic and the rest came along and the decided to give up the name for general use. MCP came out of anthropic, MCP is a good thing. Android came out of Google and now we've got Graphene OS. Stuff can happen like that. Often does.