I highly recommend considering posting your excellent content on pubky.app
In a year or two, Pubky will have orders of magnitude more DAU than Nostr etc.
It's inevitable because it's unequivocally better.
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Isn't this carvello's thing? What makes it better?
Most importantly, Pubky cryptography is objectively better than Nostr. Both harder and faster... Pubky's Ed25519 will always be faster than Nostr's Scp256k1 and this translates to a 4x speed advantage, even up to data payloads of MB/GB/TB.
Pubky's core architecture is built on Public Key Addressable Resource Records (Pkarr) i.e. Kademlia, whereas Nostr relies on relays that claim to be decentralised. Plenty of other reasons too.
I went to their website the last time you told me about it. The first thing they ask for to create an account is a phone number. I turned around and left immediately.
That's not the case. Pubky uses Curve25519 keypairs which can be generated from entropy and are even supported by hardware signers such as NitroKey (with secure element) unlike nostr. The Pubky.app homeserver has a toll (either invite code, or SMS, or pay a few SATs) but the homeserver code is open source so you can run your own to connect to the network, which has the advantage of allowing you to host rich media (pics/videos etc.). I imagine that it'll have a nice GUI like start9 or Umbrel or Cloudron at some point in the future.
Lmk if you'd like an invite code for a homeserver and I'll send you a insecure & tracked DM on nostr.
pubky is funded by tether…
I think that's because the devs working on it have to feed themselves, and many of the people leading funds supposedly created to support freedom tech (such as #OpenSats) have very deep and very obvious cognitive bias and priors as a consequence of historic investment decisions. Very sad situation.
I open Plume or Amethyst, or Coracle or whatever and stuff loads and I can interact with a community of people I enjoy talking with.
None of what you just listed looks like an improvement on that. What actual benefit does it provide? Tangible, noticeable, real benefit?
None at all from a UX perspective. Too early.
I'm there for the architecture.
Apps will follow.
I'll wait and see. It's been a long time coming though and you know how inertia works. Thats why adoption here is slow enough.