@bender@twtxt.net Interesting that it performed so poorly when your tried your own relay. How many clients were accessing it at once? Overall I’m definitely not sold on it yet, while I do like fiddling around with new protocol stuff I am also very wary of the crypto-libertarian ethos that is driving the Nostr project.
@prologic@twtxt.net Nostr doesn’t have any blockchain features, it just has a community with a lot of crypto bros in it.
@ocdtrekkie@twtxt.net “it’s not built on the Bitcoin blockchain per se, but most implementations of Nostr support Bitcoin payments over Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.” — Non-scholarly source.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah the protocol for it is pretty straightforward. It suggests relays should charge money for their services though, which is likely why Bitcoin payment integration may be common.
@prologic@twtxt.net It’s decentralized: You submit a copy of your messages to as many relays as you would like, and people can follow them from as many relays as they like. The relays act as the “server”, but your profile isn’t tied to any specific one.
Messages are signed with a keypair to verify who they came from. But there’s no blockchain strategy in use for them.
@prologic@twtxt.net It literally calls itself dumb here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr (It’s a very readable readme)
@prologic@twtxt.net I mean, I wouldn’t want a Russian server to ensure my free speech, but some of the free speech absolutists will take it anywhere they can get it.