Anthony Accioly on Nostr: I started my Nostr journey with Ditto and even began working on a fork of Soapbox ...
I started my Nostr journey with Ditto and even began working on a fork of Soapbox that could function as both an ActivityPub and Nostr client (despite not being a big fan of JavaScript). Some time later, ReplyGuy happened, and it was decided (carefully avoiding naming names here) that NIP-05 "verification" was the best solution to fight spam on Ditto servers.
I tried to convince the Ditto devs that this wasn’t a good idea but quickly realised that pushing the point any further would only lead to Ditto becoming a gated community, likely locked behind registration forms and the whitelisting of “trustworthy” domains. In other words, Mastodon over Nostr with extra steps.
So, I jumped onto the WoT bandwagon instead. Utxo was far more open to different ideas and genuinely willing to help new users who might otherwise be excluded from writing to WoT relays, like myself.
Fast forward a few months, and now I’m contributing to Haven, trying to give the Outbox model and public Kind 1 notes a fighting chance. Even though some Nostr content is already locked behind private communities, relays, and other gated spaces, I still believe in the potential of public Kind 1 notes as Nostr's "town square," even if the content itself isn’t particularly appealing to my personal tastes (I could argue that the very nature of a public town square makes most of its content unappealing :)).
I tried to convince the Ditto devs that this wasn’t a good idea but quickly realised that pushing the point any further would only lead to Ditto becoming a gated community, likely locked behind registration forms and the whitelisting of “trustworthy” domains. In other words, Mastodon over Nostr with extra steps.
So, I jumped onto the WoT bandwagon instead. Utxo was far more open to different ideas and genuinely willing to help new users who might otherwise be excluded from writing to WoT relays, like myself.
Fast forward a few months, and now I’m contributing to Haven, trying to give the Outbox model and public Kind 1 notes a fighting chance. Even though some Nostr content is already locked behind private communities, relays, and other gated spaces, I still believe in the potential of public Kind 1 notes as Nostr's "town square," even if the content itself isn’t particularly appealing to my personal tastes (I could argue that the very nature of a public town square makes most of its content unappealing :)).