So no question I’ve been enjoying lemmy, I love the freedom it offers and I love the seemingly simple and elegant framework it runs on however after having ditched Reddit for the hopes of a similar or improved content experience I have to say it is quite a bit smaller and therefore barren at times which is both a good and bad thing depending on your needs
And then of course there’s kbin and masterdon which from my understanding is a little more geared towards the twitter-like micro blogging
But this morning somehow I stumbled across nostr which I have never heard of but I was wondering if anyone out there has any experience with it? There’s a Web app like voyager at iris.to that makes browsing pretty simple…
Nostr gets rid of the notion of servers and admins. At a high level everyone on nostr owns their own account (no central instance). When you want to post something you send your content to a list of relays you choose.
Other people can choose what relays they want to subscribe to.
Relays can block people from subscribing or posting.
Everything is cryptographically secured so there is no way for someone to pretend to be you.
Lemmy is different where the instance admin has complete control. Admins can post as you and users cannot easily migrate to a different server.
Very interesting, it sounds like they each have pros and cons, it also sounds a bit like mIRC without the C
I must admit, it’s MUCH easier to sign-up and start using it (even if you don’t know what it’s doing)