Coleman<p>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:</p><p>1. I am not at the mercy of any one server admin for my account to be held without self hosting.</p><p>2. The clients are much more diverse</p><p>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)</p><p>4. Speaking of DMs, they're encrypted on Nostr aside from metadata.</p><p>5. Zaps are a super cool integration</p><p>6. A little bonus: I can view most of the mastodon accounts I follow on there anyways thanks to the mostr.pub bridge.</p><p>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.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nostr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostr</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bitcoin</span></a></p>