What is Nostr?
mleku
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2025-02-05 13:08:45
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mleku on Nostr: it is a feature, not a bug there used to be thousands and thousands of IRC chatrooms, ...

it is a feature, not a bug

there used to be thousands and thousands of IRC chatrooms, now almost none, where did most of them go? reddit, i guess, a lot of them, but the culture there is toxic, and facebook, xitter, threads, bluesky, slack, etc

the whole point of nostr, as i grasped it very early on was this:

affinity groups

paid relays

organisational chats and forums and other process/logistical comms

i literally now only use two relays, my own self hosted one, which all of my follows are free to use (and their follows) and SilberWitch (nprofile…mm8q) 's The Forest relay

why? because it eliminates the amount of moneros and bullshit scammy rockstar dev ingroup bullshit i see

the core purpose of nostr is about letting us pick and choose where and with who we want to communicate, it's not supposed to be an uncensored twitter
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