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@MoonOn my way to ruin that protocol too.
Aside from the easiness of making an account and censorship resistance idk why people on here like Nostr that much 🤷
@kroner @MoonAside from (the 2 most important things about it) I’m not sure what there is to like.
Because if it works as advertised, I would scale way further then Activitypub. But the censorship thins is big. The fediverse fails badly at putting that control in the hands of the users and not server admins.
@gvs @alex @kroner i am a fediverse partisan for various reasons but i think the nostr way of keys and relays is better overall
@gvs @kronerThe only concern I have is leaked private keys. For apps to be so easy you can start posting immediately, it means your private key is stored in a web browser. We also want to integrate this into existing systems with thousands of users. But it opens up a new vulnerability of “what if the server gets hacked and everyone’s keys get leaked”. This is worse than leaking passwords because there’s no recourse. Those accounts just get stolen forever.
@gvs @kronerWhat you really want is a hardware wallet. (There’s a NIP for it though no clients support it yet.) But then are people really going to sign their every shitpost with a Trezor? No…
@alex @gvs @kroner i consider that nostr is basically encouraging people to paste a private key into dozens of random websites to be incredibly irresponsible. it's not okay to write it off as "just a client issue" either, people don't realize what they're doing.
Though there are apps and this is a browser issue. I do think people expect to also be able to use web and the only option is to upload your private key...
Interesting conundrum
@gvs @kroner
Still not great for a browser extension to have your private key, but vastly superior to even the Fediverse when using different clients.
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