I don't really understand how Activity Pub has such good clients + web FEs, and how polished and nice Bluesky's app + FE at `bsky.app` is. While virtually all of Nostr's clients and FEs are really poo...
🧠 Nostr needs:
🔸 Simple, functional, reliable, straightforward, elegant client that doesn't try to do too much nor pack in a huge amount of features. It needs to be straightforward, clean, and essentially just focus on micro-blogging and basic social networking.
🔸 A set of curated relays therein with an intentional focus away from the current extant Nostr zeitgeist/user-base (crypto spam, essentially; crypto fanatics). Focus on normal and organic user content that is more accessible to a wider quantity of users.
☁️ Bluesky has the client/app and onboarding figured out 100%. —Their stuff is totally polished, functional, and a joy to use. But, AT Protocol is de facto not-decentralized and Bluesky's zeitgeist/user-base is hysterical Western politics and general hostility/toxicity towards one another.
🐘 Activity Pub has a wide variety of clients/FEs which are also very polished and enjoyable to use. Primarily, though, Activity Pub has curated, generally, a phenomenal community and user-base. The zeitgeist/user-base on the Fediverse is great and probably it's strongest asset. But, from a protocol standpoint, Activity Pub is probably the weakest between AT Protocol and Nostr.
💡 If there is a way to code an app/client that delivers the onboarding and UI/UX of Bluesky or other Fediverse FEs, with relays and default community curation that incubates a wider community more akin to the Fediverse, all built on Nostr as a protocol, then I think this is a massively winning combination that can deliver greater network effect and traction to Nostr as a whole.
🔸 Simple, functional, reliable, straightforward, elegant client that doesn't try to do too much nor pack in a huge amount of features. It needs to be straightforward, clean, and essentially just focus on micro-blogging and basic social networking.
🔸 A set of curated relays therein with an intentional focus away from the current extant Nostr zeitgeist/user-base (crypto spam, essentially; crypto fanatics). Focus on normal and organic user content that is more accessible to a wider quantity of users.
☁️ Bluesky has the client/app and onboarding figured out 100%. —Their stuff is totally polished, functional, and a joy to use. But, AT Protocol is de facto not-decentralized and Bluesky's zeitgeist/user-base is hysterical Western politics and general hostility/toxicity towards one another.
🐘 Activity Pub has a wide variety of clients/FEs which are also very polished and enjoyable to use. Primarily, though, Activity Pub has curated, generally, a phenomenal community and user-base. The zeitgeist/user-base on the Fediverse is great and probably it's strongest asset. But, from a protocol standpoint, Activity Pub is probably the weakest between AT Protocol and Nostr.
💡 If there is a way to code an app/client that delivers the onboarding and UI/UX of Bluesky or other Fediverse FEs, with relays and default community curation that incubates a wider community more akin to the Fediverse, all built on Nostr as a protocol, then I think this is a massively winning combination that can deliver greater network effect and traction to Nostr as a whole.
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