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New blog post, a bit of an addendum to my older microblogging protocols comparison post(s) until I do an updated version at some point. It mostly just goes over a handful of big events and shifts I've personally noticed since my last post in the summer of 2024.
Is it correct to say the #Fediverse and #BlueSky are "federated" by protocol bridges? I have similar question related to #Nostr and #Threads and other bridged protocols. Given the #Fediverse is #ActivityPub, what this larger federated social web called?
Is it correct to say the #Fediverse and #BlueSky are "federated" by protocol bridges? I have similar question related to #Nostr and #Threads and other bridged protocols. Given the #Fediverse is #ActivityPub, what this larger federated social web called?
@rabble have you looked into GitWorkshop?
nate.mecca1.net/posts/2025-12-…
New blog post, a bit of an addendum to my older microblogging protocols comparison post(s) until I do an updated version at some point. It mostly just goes over a handful of big events and shifts I've personally noticed since my last post in the summer of 2024.
"Part of the reason I built diVine was, I wanted an example of this Social Media Bill of Rights. I wanted this idea that users own their own name and their content. That we get say over the algorithms and that we get transparency over them. That we get the right exit, because it's built on this Nostr protocol."
@rabble, 2025
https://revolution.social/episodes/vine-revisited-and-the-fight-against-ai-slop/
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#podcasts #RevolutionSocial #SocialMediaBillOfRights #diVine #Nostr
...realisation that ChatMail is pretty much the same concept using mail inboxes as storage for no reason. Like trying to square the circle and having this matroska doll EXPLOSION of complexity (again, remember ~20 DNS record changes) while claiming to simplify instant messaging using already existent technology.
No you do not, the concept of relays already exist in Nostr, the concept of PGP to identify you also already exist in Nostr, even the up and coming MTA (multiple emails one identity) already exists and works in Nostr, your identity is completely portable.
Difference:
- There are hundreds of..
@ntnsndr
They are different in how they empower people as well.
#ActivityPub is based around servers whose admins have the power to do literally anything at their whim, as they are the source of truth.
#Nostr, OTOH, (and perhaps #ATProto as well; I need to learn more about it) is based around servers that are dumb relays that simply pass signed data between users' devices.
For a taste of what I've been working on this season, I have a new, tiny-little essay in the in-house journal of our Center for Media, Religion, and Culture, Rhythms: "Are Protocols Elite?" Based on a collab with Avery Edenfield. https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/2025/11/06/rhythms-fall-2025-counter-media
@ntnsndr
To my mind, an example of an elite internet protocol and a corresponding vernacular one is #ActivityPub versus #Nostr.
AP was created by the W3C whereas Nostr was created by some random guy under a pseudonym whose real name is a mystery.
A decentralized vine (remember vine?) short form video platform, built on Nostr. Kinda early days, but interesting to see another attempt at this type of platform using open social tech.
A decentralized vine (remember vine?) short form video platform, built on Nostr. Kinda early days, but interesting to see another attempt at this type of platform using open social tech.
Requiring government ID just to make an app is a disaster for speech, privacy, and innovation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/application-gatekeeping-ever-expanding-pathway-internet-censorship
Technology is supercharging the current attack on democracy by making it easier to spy on people, block free speech, and control what we do. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s activists, lawyers, and technologists are fighting back. Join us! https://takebackctrl.org/
@racchio there has been a lot of chatter about it on https://scuttlebutt.nz over the years, if you care to install Yet Another Distributed Social Network to dive deeper. It is the usual rhetoric & dog-whistles in #Nostr projects- "complete freedom of expression" "without the risk of de-platforming" predictably attracts bigots who want to shout hateful things. 'Big Tent' philosophy and the 'Nazi bar' outcome etc etc https://startup-weekly.com/Primal-launches-new-social-network-for-digital-freedom/
@racchio I don't know much about #Nostr, other than that it's a fascist-run project with a disastrous cultural history. But yes, #Keet is for IM and runs fully decentralised.
(I'm going to use that word rather than "distributed" as the architecture *does* actually facilitate the distribution of power as well as of compute & storage. It's also built by a pretty cool community of anarchists & anarcho-syndicalists, at least the ones I've met.)
@racchio I don't know much about #Nostr, other than that it's a fascist-run project with a disastrous cultural history. But yes, #Keet is for IM and runs fully decentralised.
(I'm going to use that word rather than "distributed" as the architecture *does* actually facilitate the distribution of power as well as of compute & storage. It's also built by a pretty cool community of anarchists & anarcho-syndicalists, at least the ones I've met.)
To everybody currently experiencing the #Signal messenger downtime and precariousness of digital infrastructure that relies on servers, know that #Keet exists! It can preserve network connectivity and message deliverability in very degraded and hostile network conditions due to the absence of servers in its #p2p architecture.
The world needs resilient communications for what is to come. Don't let your whole network depend on one company.
#Nostr is a classic “me-too” project caught in the #geekproblem loop. It won’t move forward until it learns to value community as core infrastructure.
#Bluesky, meanwhile, is already drifting into the hands of VC-funded #fluffy elitists who turn every commons into a brand. It’s a likely dead-end for real change or challenge — which is exactly why the #mainstreaming, #blocking, #NGO, and #fashernista crowds flock to it.
#Nostr is a classic “me-too” project caught in the #geekproblem loop. It won’t move forward until it learns to value community as core infrastructure.
#Bluesky, meanwhile, is already drifting into the hands of VC-funded #fluffy elitists who turn every commons into a brand. It’s a likely dead-end for real change or challenge — which is exactly why the #mainstreaming, #blocking, #NGO, and #fashernista crowds flock to it.
We finally have true #socialmedia in #nostr for authentic conversation compard to the disingenuous facade of #mastodon
