Well, that sucks.

Still centralized. And the protocol's userbase is still like 99% Bluesky.

I mean, while Charlie Kirk was a douchebag grifter who hurt people's feelings the United Healthcare CEO was an IRL vampire ghoul who actively harmed people's lives in direct and quantifiable ways wholly for greed. I don't think it's necessarily a good thing that people assassinate political chodes like Kirk but the world would be an objectively better place with more murdered CEOs.

It’s the best Nostr app I’ve used, by far! Makes me want to continue exploring Nostr. I’m a long-time Fediverse user who has recently been exploring alternatives since I have personal reservations about Activity Pub as a protocol insofar as longevity and true data autonomy and censorship resistance. I’ve tried AT Protocol in depth recently via Bluesky, but also quite dislike the protocol architecture (and the extant user-base is extremely toxic). Nostr is the closest protocol that “checks all my boxes” for what would be ideal. I think the server-first model and PDS model of AP and ATP are inherently flawed. And Nostr, being as simple as it is, I think has the best possibility for extensibility.

🧠 Nostr needs: 🔸 Simple, functional, reliable, straightforward, elegant client that doesn't try to do too much nor pack in a huge amount of features. It needs to be straightforward, clean, and essentially just focus on micro-blogging and basic social networking. 🔸 A set of curated relays therein with an intentional focus away from the current extant Nostr zeitgeist/user-base (crypto spam, essentially; crypto fanatics). Focus on normal and organic user content that is more accessible to a wider quantity of users. ☁️ Bluesky has the client/app and onboarding figured out 100%. —Their stuff is totally polished, functional, and a joy to use. But, AT Protocol is de facto not-decentralized and Bluesky's zeitgeist/user-base is hysterical Western politics and general hostility/toxicity towards one another. 🐘 Activity Pub has a wide variety of clients/FEs which are also very polished and enjoyable to use. Primarily, though, Activity Pub has curated, generally, a phenomenal community and user-base. The zeitgeist/user-base on the Fediverse is great and probably it's strongest asset. But, from a protocol standpoint, Activity Pub is probably the weakest between AT Protocol and Nostr. 💡 If there is a way to code an app/client that delivers the onboarding and UI/UX of Bluesky or other Fediverse FEs, with relays and default community curation that incubates a wider community more akin to the Fediverse, all built on Nostr as a protocol, then I think this is a massively winning combination that can deliver greater network effect and traction to Nostr as a whole.

I'm so sleepy!

My company can block domain access on my company-issued iPad regardless of location or network connection. On the opposite side of the country on a hotel WiFi connection and my company disallows connections to various domains on this device. Kinda dystopian.

I don't really understand how Activity Pub has such good clients + web FEs, and how polished and nice Bluesky's app + FE at `bsky.app` is. While virtually all of Nostr's clients and FEs are really poorly designed, clunky, buggy, and generally not enjoyable to use. I really wish I knew how to code/program because I'd honestly love to make a Nostr client in my own image.

In comparing Bluesky to Nostr I'm specifically comparing the client/app/FE, as I said. Bluesky, more proper, is (in AT Protocol terms) a whole platform: client/app, app view, firehoses, relays, PDSs, etc.. —All the moving parts that makes AT Protocol so incoherent and difficult to truly decentralize with self-hosting and independent providers (the only really viable self-hosting right now are PDSs, but +90% of users will never do this; There exist a couple alternative app-views, but nobody fully hosting out a complete AT Protocol platform as Bluesky is). But, specifically, I'm referring to Bluesky as the client/app/web FE when I discuss it here. Their client experience and onboarding is beautiful and straightforward. Very palatable for new users.

Thanks! 👋

Trying out `nos.social` that is working on. Got it installed to my company iPad (the only iOS device I own right now). Actually super polished and nice compared to virtually everything else I’ve tried. Very impressed!

I'll definitely have to check those out and do more research. I'm strapped for time right now but I earlier elaborated further on what I think is necessary:

I haven’t been able to fly on an A350 yet but I understand they’re really nice airplanes all-around.

I need to get NIP-05 setup for my Nostr existence.

Nostr is pretty cool. Just want to see better clients and more relays.

Nice! I'll try that. I'm trying out a different client now (more macOS-friendly) called Nostrmo and things are working better already.

Nostr has a huge problem with clients, onboarding, user-base + community, among other various issues and "teething pains". However, between Activity Pub and AT Protocol, Nostr is the best technical implementation of a decentralized social network and has the greatest potential.

Okay, yeah, we’re essentially seeing the same thing. So, good to know it’s not just on my end!

AT Protocol, which Bluesky acts as an app view and full ATP stack suite for, is decentralized in protocol. In practice, however, +90% of the entire AT Protocol user-base is on (and will always be on) Bluesky, making it de facto centralized.