@johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo
2026-02-25 14:20 UTC
@setto@tooting.ch I literally had just deleted my Nostr identity (or maybe abandoned it) to try to make some sense of what I found when I posted. The mobile apps make it look like a bunch of communities that turned social "likes" into sleazy bitcoin farms.
The way Nostr was presented made it look like it was blockchain. I see now that it's not - blockchain just came along for the ride.
Thanks, I'll have to take a look at better relays. Not giving up yet. I can see value in what the protocol wants to do.
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@setto@tooting.ch 2026-02-25 15:35
@johnofrobotz@mastodon.girolab.foo well, it's possible to create an event kind for paypall or stripe payments. Regardless, I think it is pretty cool that gift economy and value transactions are embedded in the protocol. Bound to make it less prone to the surveillance capitlaism from adds financing the web. Even without, I run a fedi instance on s.basspistol.org. the community nostr relay is far more affordable in terms of the resources. And we're talking decentealized git, group chat, media server etc etc...