Can't decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti's new app lets you post to all three. | TechCrunch
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Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It's even tougher for those who are experimenting with the new wave of Twitter-like services, like
    • jacawEnglish
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      9 months ago

      It helps manage a social media presence for anyone who relies on it, I.e. artists and general celebrities. George Takei, for example, already posts the same things to mastodon and bluesky (no clue about nostr) and has a very large following on both platforms because of it.

      • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I don’t, and I won’t make that possible for myself either. I don’t need to spend even more time on the internet interacting with bots, AI, ads and spyware.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Nostr vs Mastodon on Privacy & Autonomy:

    • Relay/instance admins can choose which content goes through their relay on either platform
    • On nostr, your DMs are encrypted. In Mastodon, the admin of the sender and receiver can read them, as can anybody else who breaks into their server
    • On nostr, a relay admin can control what goes through their relay, but they can’t stop you from following/DMing/being followed by whoever you want since you are typically connected to multiple relays at once. As long as one relay allows it, signal flows. Nostr provides the best of both worlds: moderated “public squares” according to your moderation preferences, autonomy to follow/dm/be followed by anybody you want (assuming that individual user hasn’t blocked you).
    • On mastodon, your identity is tied to your instance. If your instance goes down, you lose your follow/followee list, DMs, etc. On Nostr, it’s not, so this doesn’t happen. Mastodon provides some functionality to migrate identity between instances but it’s clunky and generally requires to have some form of advanced notice.
    • Both have all the same functions as twitter: tweet, reply, re-tweet, DM, like, etc.

    Why I think nostr will win https://lemmy.ml/post/11570081

    • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Problem with Nostr: Relays are useless because we already have proper universal networks that on application level allow us to just send messages straight from device to device.

      It would be much better to invent message format and just use Yggdrasil, I2P or GNUNet to send it. While Nostr invent a format and then invent very dumb way to send it - connecting all users to as many static nodes as possible.