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Nostr Protocol (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Gargari@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What you think about the protocol and it's future? Currently it's mostly inhabited by BTC fans but the idea itself seems much better than what Mastodon/Lemmy is doing

#Nostr: https://nostr.com

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[–] vamp07@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I think its a much better way of managing account credentials. basically there are no accounts. Just identities. The servers are just repeaters but they could also handle moderation. I wish the fediverse incorporated this concept for handling accounts/identities.

[–] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 1 points 6 months ago

Censorship resistance means shit all if you’re signing everything you write with your IP address.

As opposed to my unpaid lemmy server admin learning about how his/her life is going to be shit if they don’t cooperate with gov agents.

Same result, but notice the extra step with lemmy?

There are no clients approaching nostr from a privacy respecting perspective. All the advice is “just run it on TAILS bro”.

When a client comes out that can bind to a VPN, or only send traffic to an onion address, then I’ll be interested.

[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nostr feels like a great protocol social media. There is a great video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

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