Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network
by sigmoid10 on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:19PM
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To me that seems about as likely as drug addicts suddenly growing tired of shooting up stuff and going into gardening as a hobby instead. Sure, it's not theoretically impossible, but I definitely wouldn't start a gardening platform targeting those people. Pre-facebook basically means a 90s style forum with highly specialised zed communities. You don't need decentralised approaches for that.
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Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network
by indigochill on Monday May 01, 2023 @02:49PM
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> Pre-facebook basically means a 90s style forum with highly specialised zed communities. You don't need decentralised approaches for that.
For a number of years I was a forum moderator for a game forum called Uru Obsession. Eventually that wound down and the forum closed, meaning all those discussions have also been lost (unless someone backed them up - by the time they closed I had moved on, so I dunno), and that community as far as I know has mostly dissolved since its closure.
A gossip protocol means there is no host - clients communicate directly with each other and also store the conversation locally so someone else deciding to stop paying hosting costs becomes a non-issue.
Re:Nostr – Decentralized Social Network
by Turing_Machine on Monday May 01, 2023 @04:15PM
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> To me that seems about as likely as drug addicts suddenly growing tired of shooting up stuff and going into gardening as a hobby instead.
I've seen a lot of people leave Facebook over the last couple of years. And I mean a lot. Oh, they might still log in every month or two to see what's up with friend and family, but daily use? Nope.