i'm not gonna bother without a TLDR on why it's better, and if i read in that something about something that is a dressed up consensus, i gonna give it a hard pass.
i've been a student of distributed systems for a long time now, since 2013, and i know a consensus protocol when i see one. nostr doesn't have one, which is the first thing every newbie to it thinks is a deficiency and they crow about how they are going to make it better by adding a consensus to it.
no consensus in the spec means i can add any consensus i want for a specific purpose. if you bake one into the spec that interferes with the use case i have in mind, it's ruled out of the options i might choose.
the things i don't like about nostr are websockets and kind numbers and NIP numbers. those can be worked around and don't lock me into a range of architectures and exclude ones that i consider to be more useful.
Login to reply
Replies (2)
Consensus is not something I look for. Not even something that piqued my interest in pubky
I dunno, you say these things about pubky or atproto which are factually wrong. Like completely not the case. It's hard to discuss what's better or worse then the core facts are not agreed.