Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 9 months agoNon-activitypub federated protocols? Who is even the 3rd party in this instance? Nostr?
Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 9 months agoNon-activitypub federated protocols? Who is even the 3rd party in this instance? Nostr?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months 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”
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 9 months 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).
Natanael@slrpnk.net 9 months 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