Comment by irusensei
2 days ago
I hear you but if you think about it who else has an incentive and skills to create something like Nostr? Who are the people interested in free speech, signatures and decentralization and with the skills to pull it up?
And since you mentioned primarily Bitcoin users those are the crypto folks that seem to be very against the idea of tokenizing everything.
From what I understand by posting something on Nostr you are posting signed events to a list of dumb relays. These events can be of many types and include hints of discoverability. There is no blockchain and no token and the thing they call zap is just a link to a lightning address that is up to the client to show.
Your account is your key pair so you are not at the whims of a power tripping administrator.
It seems like the perfect nesting ground for non corporate user content and pocket islands of communities. Nothing prevents someone from implementing a relay or community that bans any talk about Bitcoin or crypto. I for one would love to see closed content focused relays in Nostr.
> Your account is your key pair so you are not at the whims of a power tripping administrator.
But you are right back to the same UX issue that prevented crypto mass adoption, i.e. lose your keys, lose everything
Very few want to own that risk.
> Very few want to own that risk.
But they are all willing to own the risk of getting their hotmail/google/apple/meta account being disabled on a whim without explanation.
What risk? Billions of people use these services. Is your perspective on the risks really warranted, in those people's minds? I can tell you it's not in mine, I'm just not worried at all about losing my Google account, despite the stories that go around