npub1rg…sc7mc on Nostr: Okabe NicoleTaylor21 Nostr is meant to address the problem of user accounts still ...
Okabe (npub1q42…zv7w) NicoleTaylor21 (npub12fe…4wrc) Nostr is meant to address the problem of user accounts still being attached to servers. With ActivityPub, if your instance goes down, your account goes down with it.
Nostr on the other hand, uses relays and key-signing (kind of like crypto but is not blockchain based) so you can login from anywhere. There are no instances, only relays that transmit data to other relays. Clients connect to multiple relays at a time to send and receive messages.
It isn't perfect. It does have problems that aren't on ActivityPub, such as having those long hashes for user identifiers, and it's somewhat slower. There is also the problem of having Bitcoin integration built-in to the protocol so you have people begging for "zaps" (basically Bitcoin donations) making a huge chunk of the posts, though that trend seems to have died down, at least from my experience.
https://nostr.com/comparisons/mastodon
Nostr on the other hand, uses relays and key-signing (kind of like crypto but is not blockchain based) so you can login from anywhere. There are no instances, only relays that transmit data to other relays. Clients connect to multiple relays at a time to send and receive messages.
It isn't perfect. It does have problems that aren't on ActivityPub, such as having those long hashes for user identifiers, and it's somewhat slower. There is also the problem of having Bitcoin integration built-in to the protocol so you have people begging for "zaps" (basically Bitcoin donations) making a huge chunk of the posts, though that trend seems to have died down, at least from my experience.
https://nostr.com/comparisons/mastodon