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"what do you like about NOSTR"?
Or what do you think are the key features of NOSTR protocol?
- censorship-resistant?
- freedom tech?
- ...?
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Honestly, attitude. The only incentive on nostr is contribute positively
Decentralised unruggability
Think different, we’ve heard these slogans many times. They are important traits, but I am sure there is more to nostr than the eye meets. 🐶🐾🫡
The incentives are aligned with the user.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
The people who build on it and the people who enjoy what’s being built.
What I like the most is the experience that I'm engaging with real persons, not with a bot or some kind of interaction that was convey through an "engagement-algorithm"
Take a moment to help @npub1alph...6dsn gather some good points
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- interoperable between apps
- content curation by users
- extensible to many use cases
zaps encourage the quality, value and necessity of the content and it’s a really nice positive feedback loop, that encourages the newcomers to adjust the aim of their content from “attention” to “value”.
- Bitcoin / financial payment network
- Flexible dev platform
- Real people support, connections, interactions
- Positive based (Twitter is very negative and hate based)
Own your identity
no such thing as permanent suspension.
No need for email, phone number or ID
Good morning!
Protocol not an app
![[ARCHIVED] Jay's avatar](https://i.nostr.build/9NquibWjyPXiz2Q4.png)
I like that one of its primary uses is to greet people upon waking and before sleeping. It's building communities one GM and one GN at a time.
It’s purple and everybody loves purple
none of your RL friends use it or ever heard of it
smile, nod and agree to the censors, proceed to do whatever the fuck i wanted to do in the first place!
No one can delete your post
Sign it and it will be forever
GMs
Permissionless
Unfortunately it is a wasted opportunity: great developers have created a tool for real free speech and (N)Ostriches bury their heads in the ground wasting this opportunity to post silly useless messages which they could better post on Twitter and no one will ever censor them. All this while the world explodes and the Jewish State carries out a long awaited ethnic cleaning operation in Gaza thanks to the opportunity of a false flag operation and full mainstream media support. Wake up (N)ostriches.
Bitcoin integrated...
It's the people. Oh, protocol... everything is signed. No, even better is that it makes public key distribution and discovery fun.
Censorship proof is by far the main draw.. I don't really see how it's superior outside if this.
Having options of multiple clients. This alone helps a lot of things I believe
1. Ensuring there is competition that drives the clients to provide the best UI/UX
-i really love amethyst for the instant auto translation on posts, and the custom emoji
2. Ensuring user can vote with their "feet" if a client decide to censor something and become the big brother
It’s still the ease of creating apps for me. 👨💻
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Adds free and freedom of speech 🎤
worldwide 1st amendment enforced by code
The nostr markets are interesting because a decentralized laize-faire capatalist marketplace on the Internet is a radical change from the status quo.
I love how we don't need permission to speak and how this whole thing is not created by corporations. Corporations can be controlled by the government. This is not conspiracy theory. It's in the Twitter files.
We also don't need to be fed car comercials, drug comercials, or war propoganda if we chose not to.
I also like the encrypted NIP 05 messages. There are now creative ways to sign onto websites like the https://plebeian.market. There's no sign up. They ask for your npub and send you three random words as a login.
Highlighter.com is awesome.
Nostr sites is pretty cool.
Developers working for bitcoin bounties for something other than bitcoin is great.
It's hard to pick just one thing.
portability of identity and social graph across apps
If you write decentralized few will understand
So I would go for : as close to peer to peer as it gets, permissionless
Because it’s a protocol it allows building applications on top the internet native value stack which is BTC LN
You named two things I like, but not the ones I am most fascinated about ;) So here's some notes that came to my mind the moment I read your note:
- Open Protocol
- Different trust model (you can write to many relays but don't have to trust them since you can just move and re-broadcast any time)
- Self-moderation (Nobody can tell you what is good or bad)
- Freely extensible and flexible (One structure for everything - just gotta fight for kind-numbers. xD)
- Organic marketing and trending (the social aspect is so strong in Nostr, that you literally can "get big" through reposts alone, without an algorythmn! - unless you are a bigcoiner from way back when, then it's a little easier.)
🤙🏻
A communications protocol enabling users to own their identity, their data, and their audience.
Brand ownership with fans and data controlled by the Creator, not thapplicationnor platform used to reach your fans, store your data, and grow your personal and professional brand names.
The the Nostr population is full of likeminded people who see the value of open permission-less protocols on the internet and the benefits they provide. At the moment nostr is a great filter of plebs and folks who see a positive and less Orwellian future around the corner. Also censorship- Freedom to say what you’re really thinking!
One protocol to rule all the clients. It was fairly easy to on-board. And the usage is similar to Twitter (I'm no power user).
Open.
-sorce
-to anyone
-in it's implications (it's clearly going to dismantle more than just twitter)
one key free styles
It provides non-repudiation. It removes the need to screenshot a post.
You can copy the entire event and repost it anywhere and it's either signed by the author or not.
You can easily tell if someone altered a screenshot or if someone actually posted it.
Forced interoperability via NIPs.
That I don't need to give my personal info or create a user account, and there's no censorship