makeasnek

It has an optional built-in tipping function where you can tip users (and receive tips) if you like their posts. Just like reddit had. Pretty cool imo but not required to use the platform.

Sounds like somebody gave you some incorrect information re: banning.

• You don't need a w3c standard to have a protocol that is open source and used globally, it's just one way to go about that. You can also have standards which are not made through w3c but are made through some other governance body, or you can have standards where the standard just kind of evolves from a bunch of different devs trying different versions of things until there's one main way which floats to the top since everybody prefers it. Nostr has the NIP (Nostr improvement proposal) process which has been used to make standards for everything from video streaming to calendar events/invites.
• Relays on nostr, which are the equivalent to instances in ActivityPub/mastodon/lemmy can set their own moderation policies, defederate from other relays, etc all the same as in ActivityPub. The moderation abilities are the same. This means relays can choose what content they allow and ban users/topics/content from other relays, etc. The key difference is that you are by default connected to multiple relays. So if your relay blocks a user you really want to follow, you can keep following that user and see them in your feed, they just don't show up for other users on that relay. If a relay blocks you, you can't post content to that relay. So you get the best of both worlds: relays have curated, moderated public squares with trending hashtags and tweets while not reducing your ability to choose who to follow and who can follow you.
• Identity portability is another key feature: if your instance goes down, you don't lose all your DMs, followers, etc.

Nostr is the way. I think it’s going to end up with way more adoption than mastodon or bluesky. I wrote a post comparing nostr vs mastodon (fedi) if anyone is curious. https://lemmy.ml/post/11570081

Nostr is the way. I think it’s going to end up with way more adoption than mastodon or bluesky. I wrote a post comparing nostr vs mastodon if anyone is curious. https://lemmy.ml/post/11570081

Don't try openshot next, it's even worse.

.onion

A total breakdown in net neutrality could have very well had that result.

Do you have to pay comcast extra to stream netflix? No? Net neutrality still exists.

It's baked in pretty deep to the protocol and to the concept of instances. This would be like making an e-mail address that's portable between e-mail servers. Maybe AP can pull this off, but it's going to be quite a change.

Relays store:

• Content posted by users connected to their relay
• Content posted by users of other relays that their relay is connected to

"Accounts" are private/public keypairs. You don't have a username/password at a specific instance, you have a public/private keypair you can use to authenticate your identity. It's like your name vs an e-mail address/username. An e-mail address is an account you have at a specific entity, this is like an activitypub username user@lemmy.ml. Your name isn't tied to a specific instance or even a single government database (since you can be identified by name in databases of multiple governments), it's just your identity. Your key in nostr works just like an identity or name in that sense.

But then what is a relay? See if a relay doesn’t hold an account and cannot ban/moderate directly content they serve then what’s exactly happening?

A relay is like an instance in AP. It hosts content and relays content from other relays according to its own moderation policies. The difference in nostr is that most users are usually connected to multiple relays, whereas an AP a user is connected to one 'instance' and their instance connects to other instances.

I also wonder if it’s a bit of a legal minefield. See I’m running mbin here. I get content from many other mbin/kbin/lemmy instances. Usually they have pretty good moderation and content is removed on my instance too. But, if someone raises a legal complaint with me directly, I’m required to act on that and moderate on my own instance. Which I can do. It seems like you’re suggesting that’s not directly possible with nostr?

This works identically in nostr. You as a relay admin can block/delete content on your relay and set whatever moderation policies you like. You can also de-federate from other relays if they have poor moderation.

Interesting hadn't heard about this thanks for the link!