@olly
If it ain’t open and decentralized, I’m looking for an alternative that is. Creator of #DigiNode Tools.
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It pains me to say it after 3 years of building on it but I think lightning is ngmi, at least for non custodial pleb payments.
I think ark and liquid are fundamentally a more sound approach to L2 for...
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.
One major downside to #Nostr is that it is way too Bitcoiner heavy. It turns the average user away. It’s all people seem to talk about on here. #Bluesky is full of people who say they tried Nostr but didn’t like it because it was too crypto oriented. Irrational that may be, but it is a factor in its inability to build communities beyond crypto. Nostr is bigger than Bitcoin. It needs to be more welcoming and it will remain in niche.
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A genuine question.
Now, Threads is taking the stage and we see people don't really care about how their data is taken and used as long as they get something back (be it in the form of entertainment...
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.
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.
