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Scoundrel 2 months ago
The difference between microblogging platforms and blogging platforms is that microblogging platforms make it easier for users to start posting and engaging with eachother. The difference between ActivityPub and traditional microblogging platforms is that ActivityPub facilitates communication between users of their choice of federated instances. The difference between Nostr and ActivityPub is that Nostr takes the ownership of its accounts away from the hosts of their posts. Don't get me wrong, not all of those platforms provide strict improvements, but I believe those are the essential changes that justify people using a new sort of platform. Do you see any issues with how I've characterized the essential differences between these platforms? Can you articulate the difference between Nostr and Pubky in a similar way? I would really appreciate hearing your thought process. I don't get to talk with many people who advocate for Pubky.
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Scoundrel 2 months ago
Man, I just want to have a dialogue, is that too much to ask for? I promise you that me going through your pre-written article does not help either of us. I will never copy and paste a question or response when talking with you. Every post I make will be unique and tailored to your replies. Can you do the same with me?
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gil 2 months ago
On Nostr I just spray and pray that a Relay will store my data and that other users will connect to one of the Relays that sotred my data. In Pubky my Keypair is a censorship resistant DNS record that tells users where I store my Data (PKDNS). This offers a guarantee that I have all of the data that a User published, that I get the newest published version (mutability is still a big pain point in Nostr as Relays don't always respect updates or might not pick up on them) and on top of this is much easier to scale to a much larger Userbase. While both systems will to a certain degree rely on certain centralized data aggregators, on Nostr most Data will end on a handful of Relays. In Pubky you're likely going to see Indexers aggregate the Data from many Homeservers to build your Social Graph. Replacing an index that malbehaves is a matter of seconds. Replacing a few centralized Relays that host most of the data is much harder at scale. Regarding pubky.app, which is basically the first pubky-core based social application, there are some cool features like tags available with many more on the Roadmap for this year.
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