Me reading this with a gold nose ring

Me reading this with a hippie beard.

Nah, you still end up paying state and local taxes. Income/revenue is different than profit.

Plus, being a non profit allows for people like Jack to utilize donations as tax deductions.

Looks like he and Zuck have the same stylist. Anyone know what this look is called, with the oversized tee and chain around his neck?

I'm out of the loop, what went wrong with Bluesky?

LLM answer ok?

Nostr, ActivityPub, and the AT Protocol (used by Bluesky) are all decentralized social media protocols, but they differ significantly in their architecture, approach to data storage, and user experience. Nostr focuses on user-led social media with a simple, flexible protocol centered around relays, while ActivityPub powers the Fediverse with federated instances and a more complex structure. The AT Protocol, used by Bluesky, prioritizes account portability and a more structured data model. [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
Here's a more detailed breakdown:

1. Nostr:

• Focus: User-led social media with a focus on decentralization, user control, and censorship resistance. [1, 2]
• Architecture: Relays (servers) handle communication and data relaying. Users connect to multiple relays, and there are no instances in the traditional sense. [9, 10]
• Data Storage: Data is stored across multiple relays, and users can choose which relays to interact with. [9, 10]
• User Experience: Emphasizes simplicity, flexibility, and user autonomy in content and moderation. [2]
• Strengths: Decentralized, censorship-resistant, and adaptable to various use cases. [2, 10]
• Weaknesses: Smaller network compared to ActivityPub and AT Protocol. [7, 10]

2. ActivityPub:

• Focus: Federated social networking, enabling communication between different instances (servers). [1, 1, 11, 11]
• Architecture: Relies on a network of independently run servers (instances) that federate (exchange data) with each other. [1, 1, 11, 11]
• Data Storage: Each instance stores its own data. [3, 3]
• User Experience: Mimics traditional social media platforms with features like following, liking, and commenting. [11, 11, 12, 12]
• Strengths: Established ecosystem with a large number of users and diverse applications (Mastodon, PeerTube, etc.). [1, 1, 13, 13]
• Weaknesses: Can be more complex than Nostr due to the federated structure, and moderation can vary between instances. [2, 2, 3, 3, 14]

3. AT Protocol (Bluesky):

• Focus: Account portability and a structured data model. [3, 3, 4, 4, 15]
• Architecture: Uses a layered approach with a data layer (hosted by Bluesky) and a protocol for interacting with that data. [3, 3, 4, 4]
• Data Storage: User data is stored in signed data repositories. [4, 4]
• User Experience: Designed for a more modern and potentially smoother user experience. [3, 3, 4, 4, 16]
• Strengths: Prioritizes account portability and aims for a better user experience. [3, 3, 6, 6]
• Weaknesses: Currently relies on Bluesky for its data layer, raising concerns about centralization. [3, 3]

In essence:

ActivityPub

is a mature protocol powering a vast network of federated servers with a wide range of applications.

Nostr

is a simpler, more user-centric protocol focused on decentralization and user control.

AT Protocol

prioritizes account portability and a modern user experience, but is currently more centralized due to its data layer dependence. [2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 17]

AI responses may include mistakes.

[1] https://dri.es/nostr-love-at-first-sight[2] https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/what-are-the-differences-between-mastodon-and-nostr-protocols[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1i0mk08/why_usechoose_at_rather_than_activitypub_for/[4] https://atproto.com/guides/overview[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/07/17/your-guide-to-nostr-the-decentralized-network-for-everything/[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33418268[7] https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nos.social%2Fblog%2Fnostr-user-led-social-media[8] https%3A%2F%2Fwww.technology.org%2Fhow-and-why%2Fat-protocol-decentralization%2F[9] https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ffediverse%2Fcomments%2F1hwtjgd%2Fis_the_architecture_of_the_fediverse_flawed_and%2F[10] https%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2Fitem%3Fid%3D42761517[11] https%3A%2F%2Fallthingsopen.org%2Farticles%2Factivitypub-explained-the-protocol-connecting-the-fediverse[12] https%3A%2F%2Fsocialhub.activitypub.rocks%2Ft%2Fintroduction-to-activitypub%2F508[13] https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FActivityPub[14] https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themoonlight.io%2Fen%2Freview%2Fseeing-the-politics-of-decentralized-social-media-protocols[15] https%3A%2F%2Fapp.daily.dev%2Fposts%2Factivitypub-nostr-at-bluesky-compared-nvbrn8wft[16] https%3A%2F%2Ftangem.com%2Fen%2Fglossary%2Fnostr%2F[17] https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nos.social%2Fblog%2Fnostr-user-led-social-media
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Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won't do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn't be writing these summaries.

Like it or not, Nostr is the only one that doesn't tie my identity to a server. I've lost several Lemmy accounts during the Reddit migration and I've had to subscribe to new instances all over again. Once it's down, really hard to migrate anything

At a certain point, people stop telling you “no” and then you end up with a gold nose ring and hippie beard. Dorsey probably hasn’t heard a “no” since 2006

If you tell that that's a hippie beard in my local metal bar... You might be politely corrected because we are awesome.

Also, punks and metalheads get beards and rings too.

I'm not sure he's the one who fucked it up.

140 symbols and the whole atmosphere I don't like, but I have my own fair set of disorders.

Hashtags are honestly a good idea, just like a social system organized around them.

Except I probably would prefer that to be similar to modernized Usenet. Actually going to pressure my family members to install Briar, want to start using it, and apparently it has such a functionality. Not sure yet. Anyway, the framework under it (right now Briar itself is the only application, but authors have ambitions) definitely would support such a thing. Maybe I'll finally have an incentive to learn Android development.

I'm out of the loop, what went wrong with Bluesky?