Notices by Coleman (thesofafox@c.im)

@BeAware that's a fair take. The only reason we see a lot of stuff here anyways is because of interoperability. I'd love to see larger, more diverse userbases on both platforms but it'll take a while.

@BeAware I will say, yeah, it's hard to not see something about Bitcoin scrolling on there. More diversity would be nice. And most of the accounts I follow are bridged from the fediverse anyways.

Last I saw, though, there were over 30 million public keys on the network. Maybe we just need different types of people to go on there as opposed to more people in general.

Fediverse, what are your thoughts on Nostr? I've been using it for a few days now and I frankly like its capabilities more than activitypub for a few reasons:

1. I am not at the mercy of any one server admin for my account to be held without self hosting.

2. The clients are much more diverse

3. You can do a lot more with a single Nostr account and client (using Amethyst allows you to participate in group chats, DMs, a marketplace to buy things, live streams, etc without accounts on multiple servers running multiple different backends)

4. Speaking of DMs, they're encrypted on Nostr aside from metadata.

5. Zaps are a super cool integration

6. A little bonus: I can view most of the mastodon accounts I follow on there anyways thanks to the mostr.pub bridge.

That's probably where I will be both posting and viewing mainly from here, but I'm curious how people on Mastodon view Nostr as well. To me it seems like it accomplishes what ActivityPub wants to while being a little less centralized and adding better functionality to clients.

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