Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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Why would I use this instead of a Mastodon instance?
You can use your same nostr keys on other relays, but you can't use the same Mastodon account on multiple servers. Nostr still suffers from the problem that it a relay goes down, your content goes down with it, though.
You may also want to use it if you keep getting blocked and reported on Mastodon, because there's no centralised blocking/banning feature. Many nostr people hate the concept of moderation for reasons I'm not entirely sure about, perhaps it's the freedom of speech absolutists flocking to a platform where they can't be kicked out after getting kicked out for their toxic opinions on every other platform.
Last time I checked nostr was also big with the cryptocurrency/web3 crowd, probably because of all of the encryption magic it uses to post things.
Wow, none of the things you mentioned makes me want to use it.
Thanks for the explanation though!
It's definitely not for me either, but there's quite an audience on there. I think Bluesky is stealing their thunder these days, though.