What is Nostr?
Michael Snoyman
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2024-12-17 14:47:05

Michael Snoyman on Nostr: Blogosphere (pre-Web2 tech): open standards, loose integration (hyperlinks+RSS ...

Blogosphere (pre-Web2 tech): open standards, loose integration (hyperlinks+RSS basically), high demands of authors for hosting their sites, difficult to remix content

Hosted blogosphere: fixes the demands on authors, but began the centralization phase

Web2: post into the beautiful walled gardens of Facebook, Twitter, etc. No self-ownership, great integration on-platform, no integration off-platform

Nostr: simple least-common-denominator formats (simple text + Markdown), self-ownership via private keys without author demands for hosting their content, easy remix

Seems like a similar evolution as gold=>banks=>central banks=>Bitcoin :)
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