Saying that #Bluesky is for pedophiles is such a ridiculous and preposterous claim. Every social media site likely has a few pedophiles lurking there if you look hard enough, including Nostr. And every site takes action to remove them if they are discovered.

In my experience, it’s pretty great over there. I like it. There is a vibrant and active community of users, which is more that can be said of many of the X alternatives.

The ATprotocol approach to achieving decentralization is different to Nostr but there is a lot to like: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03239

Yes, the fee per transaction will be high, but there will be very few transactions occurring on the main chain. Will it be enough? Why would more transactions occur on the main chain as fees drop? Do lightning/liquid nodes have an incentive to “settle up”?

They are striking a balance between ease of use and full control. Most normies don’t want have to deal with keys. Given that you can now self host you should now have full control of your keys though it is early days and the process is clunky. That said Nostr could learn a lot from Bluesky’s focus on removing the complexity of decentralization.

#APprotocol is locked open by design so that even if #Bluesky (the company) was bought by Musk or went out of business, the protocol will survive. A good read: https://bsky.social/about/bluesky-and-the-at-protocol-usable-decentralized-social-media-martin-kleppmann.pdf

As much as I believe in Bitcoin, this is why I have also always believed in DigiByte as well. The world needs a coin that can scale on chain and Bitcoin can’t do that in its current form. Lightning has a lot of problems to overcome and is struggling to deliver.

What do you mean?

I’m a fan of both Nostr and Bluesky. Two great projects, with more or less the same goals of decentralising social media using open protocols, but with different approaches.

Personally I think that one of Bluesky’s strengths over is that it is very easy to use, whilst allowing accounts to be portable. That said it has not yet federated so we shall see how that goes. The problem with Mastodon is that account portability is not easy - it just create lots of smaller walled gardens rather one big one.

As for Threads, it is really no better than Twitter right now, just different. Just because a lot of people signed up to check it out does not mean they will stick with it long term. As long as it relies on the advertising model it will rapidly and inevitably enshittify itself.

I think both Bluesky and Nostr will continue to grow, whatever happens with Theeads.