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Comment on Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only

I don't know much about recent developments, but the early version of the protocol had several major flaws:

- Identity is based on a non-rotatable key, other types of identity are not supported.
- No privacy without encryption.
- Media attachments are not supported, all images are stored on a single server.
- Servers only store data and don't do anything else, so they get abstracted away and everyone uses the same 5 relays (in Fediverse each server has a personality, and that creates a strong incentive to self-host).

There are also many minor things that I dislike, for example the use of numbers instead of human-readable names, unusual cryptography and so on.

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N3M@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As of more recently:

The identity system is still the same, keys aren’t rotatable and still the core of your account. Outside of edge cases like Frost Bunkers (outsourcing key management to a cluster of third party servers), or platforms like DiVine letting you register with an email, keys remain pretty much the same.

Private infomration like DMs have been altered. They’re still E2E encrypted, but now only the people involved in the conversation can request a copy of the encrypted DM (I assume that’s what you’re referring to, but I may be mistaken).

Media attachements are usually uploaded to Blossom servers now. Standard notes still only embed remote media, but the ecosystem has a semi decentralized means of hosting content, and most clients will have a more standard ‘upload and share’ type of feature that most other platforms/protocols have.

The more recent outbox model (on supported clients) allows you to set the relays that will host your content and replies/reactions to your content, diversifying the ecosystem away from a handful of big relays. Software like Ditto also provides a more Mastodon community style experience - even to the extent of supporting the Mastodon API.
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lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m astonished at the way you broke markdown to degrade accessibility. Special type of evil?

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flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

of numbers instead of human-readable names

TBF, they have introduced a ‘verified’ system that lets you use human readable names.

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- silverpill@mitra.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I mean event kinds: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips?tab=readme-ov-file#event-kinds
  ActivityPub has Note and Follow, Nostr has 1 and 3.
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  - flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Wow, that’s bad. I would hate working with this so much.
    
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