Alex Gleason on Nostr: ActivityPub is built on trust, so the fact that Nostr users trust me is not ...
ActivityPub is built on trust, so the fact that Nostr users trust me is not fundamentally different than Nostr users trusting any ActivityPub server. It's a flaw of ActivityPub. Good design leans into both strengths and weaknesses of a system.
I have a track record of being a trustworthy person. The risk here is losing the key, which can happen by mistake. It's not a sustainable long-term solution. I am aware of that fact, and so are many others. It's a short term solution to enable collaboration across protocols.
Having multiple bridges would not be as bad as you think. It publishes events with NIP-48 proxy tags: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/48.md And bridge servers ignore any events with this tag to prevent duplication and loops.
Clients would have to use proxy tags to deduplicate content if there were multiple bridges. And I am currently building a client specifically to do that (among other things): https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto
You can check my slide show about Mostr if you want to know about the bigger vision: https://poast.tv/w/jUknj6g3BbkESsidKbDRzr
Thanks for taking a look.
I have a track record of being a trustworthy person. The risk here is losing the key, which can happen by mistake. It's not a sustainable long-term solution. I am aware of that fact, and so are many others. It's a short term solution to enable collaboration across protocols.
Having multiple bridges would not be as bad as you think. It publishes events with NIP-48 proxy tags: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/master/48.md And bridge servers ignore any events with this tag to prevent duplication and loops.
Clients would have to use proxy tags to deduplicate content if there were multiple bridges. And I am currently building a client specifically to do that (among other things): https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto
You can check my slide show about Mostr if you want to know about the bigger vision: https://poast.tv/w/jUknj6g3BbkESsidKbDRzr
Thanks for taking a look.