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• Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nostr is a wildly different protocol from atprotocol and activitypub.

  Activitypub is very much like email (SMTP) over http, pushing messages between servers. Atprotocol is instead using a repository model per user points aggregation servers and a pull model for retrieval. Nostr is a P2P protocol with “gossip nodes”

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  • BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, I more I learn about this stuff I can't see the purpose of this new protocol versus the existing ones (not to even mention all the activitypub/fediverse spinoffs too).

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    • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Account portability for one thing, with accounts being defined by the DID and repository and not server name + path you can easily switch servers

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