Comment on I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why.

skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• makeasnek@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Except that ActivityPub and Nostr’s moderation functionality is basically identical. Relay/instance operators can block users, filter content, set their own moderation policies, and defederate from other instances with weak moderation policies. The difference is that if your instance admin blocks you from following somebody you want to on AP, you need to make a new account at a new instance and check that account seperately. If your instance admin does that in nostr, it’s just a matter of adding another relay to your list and now you can keep following/being followed by/DMing that person.

  Protocol wise, you can absolutely use a portable identity with ActivityPub. Every user has a key pair that us used to sign and verify their posts, and there’s no reason why you wouldn’t be able to use the same key for multiple servers. Nobody actually implements a scheme like that but you could use keys instead of ActivityPub usernames to label accounts, if you wanted to. You could even use multiple servers the same way nostr uses multiple relays!

  You can do this, but your account is still tied to the instance. If somebody sends a DM or tweet to skullgiver@lemmy.ml but lemmy.ml no longer exists, all the public keys in the world don’t solve that problem. In nostr, tweets and DMs are directed at a key, not at a user at a particular relay.

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• adam@doomscroll.n8e.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In nostr’s case, that’s tech bros and freedom of speech “absolutists”,

  Don’t forget the crypto bros.

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  • dth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dear God, so many cryptobros.

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