The past few days, I have been heavily experimenting with Nostr as another alternative to centralized services. And, I am honestly impressed by just how good it is. The protocol is quite simple and works very fast.
However, the almost constant bugging of the integration with idontcarecoins is a little annoying. Easy to ignore, but still always there.
What do you think about Nostr? Have you tried it?
This is developed by people completely oblivious to the fact that social networking is primarily not a technical but a social problem. Thus to be honest: complete waste of time. But I guess if you want to communicate with a lot of crypto-coin scammers it is a good solution right now /s
Even more complicated than Mastodon and feels really janky. Seems like it’s likely to always be niche. Also full of cryptobros whenever I’ve loaded it up again.
Spent a while there now. Yep, its Bitcoin, everywhere.
Though if you doomscroll long enough (heh), you MIGHT find someone worth following and reading. …might.
There is also Secure Scuttlebutt if you need extreme nomadicity
https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/
It is basically very similar in concept, just without the baggage of inconvenience which comes with crypto coins.
But clients looks abandoned
https://github.com/ssbc/patchwork
https://github.com/ssbc/patchbay
https://gitlab.com/staltz/manyverseSo it might be considered as well as dead.
And there is also the DAT protocol, which again is assimilable to IPFS just without the coins, but it seems it really never took off, https://dat-ecosystem.org/
I guess coins scams is really what only can sustain these projects then :/