yeah that's why I haven't explored it much more, I was just browsing through posts and it was all Waco type guys or garden variety racists and misogynists
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yes, and running your own relay, although it's easy, changes nothing, there is no way to do local moderation
it almost makes me appreciate the mastodon approach, where at least different communities are more or less siloed
(even though i dislike instance politics and surrounding meanness *a lot*)
I’m kind of of the opinion that nostr is the only actually decentralized ‘social network’ rn, and bluesky (obv) and mastodon (less obviously but just as apparent imo) just are not decentralized, but largely because complete decentralization is undesirable for most people/applications
I’ve seen some really good non-social-network type apps running on nostr that are still super cool though. whereas on atproto people are using bluesky posts as databases lol
agree, i think the best combination would be if the underlying infrastructure is decentralized like nostr, but users are able to create more more cosy, semi-closed, moderated communities with semi-permeable membranes between them
not as one dump—the bar is just too low if's trivial to create say 1000 keypairs and flood you with insults, or whatever, and that's what nostr is right now
yeah no I've found her writing really useful on this! I guess at the end of the day I just don't think 'federation' (as she uses it, as employed by mastodon et al) is actually _usefully_ decentralized.
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it almost makes me appreciate the mastodon approach, where at least different communities are more or less siloed
(even though i dislike instance politics and surrounding meanness *a lot*)
still very much agree with what Christine Lemmer-Webber writes in https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/