One thing I don’t like about Nostr is that you have zero ability to lock down who has read access to your notes. I guess unless you run your own server, but even then the nature of the protocol is to spread notes like an unstoppable virus. But 99% of people don’t want that.
Nostr sacrifices safety for proliferation, which is not that trade off that most people want or need.
Does Pubky differ at all in this regard?
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On Pubky you have control in the sense that only what's found on your home-server can be considered yours, as in cryptographically linked to you. And you can edit and delete stuff on your home-server at anytime. (Unless you use some future client that signs every note nostr style, but that's not the default way of going about things.)
In terms of read access to your stuff you certainly could control that on Pubky, since the place where things are being read from is your homeserver, not some relay outside of your grasp.
Pubky offers both strong censorship resistance and a high degree control, the trade off is that it didn't emerge from the same sort of quantum soup as nostr, so it's much more managed, at least for now.
it's exactly the opposite
because no one connects to your homeserver but only to one big indexer that indexer can forge anything and grant access to anything
Pubky is for bittorrent style censorship resistance. You can sign notes but dont have to. Nostr has much weaker DNS based resistance. For nostr to be censorship resistant it needs to use public keys as relays, instead of DNS.
Can you name one app where you have the ability to lock down who has read access to your note ?
So you think no one runs a nostr relay from an on premises server but everyone is gonna run a pubky homeserver?
Okay.
