| I'm a recent convert to Nostr. Four things I love about it: - It's "just" JSON and WebSockets. From a developer's perspective, it's incredibly easy to get started and build interesting things with it. (Like the early days of Twitter.) Which leads to... - Nostr culture is tolerant of bots and other automated workflows. (Unlike current management of Twitter) - Nostr culture is tolerant of search engines. (Unlike fediverse, or at least the Mastodon part, though I appreciate the reasons for that distinction.) - Built-in micropayment infrastructure with "zaps" and Lightning Network integration enables a ton of interesting new startup idea possibilities. One thing I don't like about Nostr, the social network. (Not Nostr, the protocol. Those two things are very easily conflated right now): - Too many Bitcoin bros. (Although personally I don't mind Bitcoin, a thriving platform should have more than one thing to talk about.) |