Having fucked up social discourse with Twitter and then Bluesky, Jack Dorsey claims he has seen the error of his ways, and definitely won’t do it a third time with his new nonprofit aimed at helping developers build and deploy (OSS or commercial) social media tech built on the Nostr platform (with AI!). Yeesh, I might be biased. Maybe I shouldn’t be writing these summaries.
If only someone could invent a distributed open source social media platform, wouldn’t that be great. Then he could spend his time and energy doing something more productive.
Nostr really isn’t about the platform, it’s about the simple, platform-agnostic keypair setup that identifies you.
There was Secure Scuttblebutt, but it had issues that hindered adoption.
Nostr does actually seem like a more usable version of it, but the only people I’ve ever seen use it are cryptobros, so it’s got a kind of anti-network effect.
Edit: Honestly a “SSB2” running over something like Veilid could be real nice, but it’s still early days.
like counting his money!