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The Bluesky team has an academic paper describing the protocol that’s a pretty good high level but somewhat technical overview. It includes how they see Bluesky compares to Secure Scuttlebutt, Nostr, Farcaster, and ActivityPub/Mastodon.

I think folks who are building Nostr apps or advocating for it in comparison to Bluesky would do well to read it to understand what they’re doing and how we’re different.

We should also write up one for Nostr.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239

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Christian · 78w

Nice, thanks! 🙌

Reading now thanks for sharing! You gonna write the nostr one? 😉

Deleted Account · 78w

Thanks 🙏 I’ll work on it. Hugs 🫂

Girino Vey! · 78w

asked chatgpt to summarize it, and some questions about network resilience: https://chatgpt.com/share/6712b746-3dc8-8007-8166-b2b4b0c5219e

Domingos Faria · 78w

#Nostr protocol is much simpler. Applying Occam's razor, it seems that Nostr has an advantage.

The documentation of the khatru relay project is a great example of maximum effort nostr documentation https://khatru.nostr.technology/

EddieOz ⚡ · 78w

Thanks for sharing!

And for folks that are wondering there are Nostr academic papers too. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=nostr+protocol&oq=nostr+protocol

Râu Cao ⚡ · 78w

WTF, they actually gave up entirely on sovereign identity?! "In principle, the cryptographic keys for signing repository updates and DID document updates can be held directly on the user’s devices, e.g. using a cryptocurrency wallet, in order to minimize trust in servers. However, we believe that...

I'm not sure what they're getting at with their description of Nostr "Communication (e.g. reply threads) is only possible between users who have at least one relay in common" That's true of any client-server architecture no?

Ancap Revolt · 78w

Bluesky is a shitcoin

Betty🌹 · 78w

nostrich · 78w

Use simplex and just add a searchable directory of available groups. Then you have a secure, properly decentralised, meta data free Telegram upgrade without a CEO. Job done. Don't reinvent the wheel.

Melvin Carvalho · 78w

Martin Kleppmann is very good at this stuff. He also helped design bluesky. I honestly thought nostr was better than bluesky at the start. But they have worked really hard to improve every aspect.

Melvin Carvalho · 78w

Rabble, you're perhaps the only person that could write such a paper.

Thanks for the share, as a fellow protocol nerd it looks like an interesting read. On writing a Nostr breakdown paper I'd potentially be interested in collaborating on something like that of anybody was looking for volunteers - though it's important to note I've written zero academic papers (unless...