@okabe_rintarou @5273d9972790a9c1ae50cd812c7a168f153dd44fd1b4b84d21f72b3f90803bfc It's a two-way bridge unlike the Twitter bridges.

@xianc78 @5273d9972790a9c1ae50cd812c7a168f153dd44fd1b4b84d21f72b3f90803bfc Why did the world need another social media protocol alongside ActivityPub though?

@okabe_rintarou @5273d9972790a9c1ae50cd812c7a168f153dd44fd1b4b84d21f72b3f90803bfc Nostr is meant to address the problem of user accounts still being attached to servers. With ActivityPub, if your instance goes down, your account goes down with it.

Nostr on the other hand, uses relays and key-signing (kind of like crypto but is not blockchain based) so you can login from anywhere. There are no instances, only relays that transmit data to other relays. Clients connect to multiple relays at a time to send and receive messages.

It isn't perfect. It does have problems that aren't on ActivityPub, such as having those long hashes for user identifiers, and it's somewhat slower. There is also the problem of having Bitcoin integration built-in to the protocol so you have people begging for "zaps" (basically Bitcoin donations) making a huge chunk of the posts, though that trend seems to have died down, at least from my experience.

https://nostr.com/comparisons/mastodon

@xianc78 @5273d9972790a9c1ae50cd812c7a168f153dd44fd1b4b84d21f72b3f90803bfc Oh, interesting. I remember coming across another protocol where you could transfer your profile. It's such a shame ActivityPub didn't incorporate that aspect. So many instances went down already.

@okabe_rintarou @xianc78 @5273d9972790a9c1ae50cd812c7a168f153dd44fd1b4b84d21f72b3f90803bfc activitypub is working on nomadic identity where you can basically have backup servers that you can move to if your instance dies or you just want to move.

@Moon @5273d9972790a9c1ae50cd812c7a168f153dd44fd1b4b84d21f72b3f90803bfc @xianc78 I only now noticed your reply. That would be fantastic. So many people's accounts were lost during the years... Is there any ETA?

@okabe_rintarou @xianc78 I think you might be thinking of ZOT/Nomad used by Hubzilla and Streams

@nsoddity @xianc78 I think it was something else, but I don't remember. I made a post about it, but Fediverses/Pleromas search capabilities and user media overview are horrendous, so I can't find it quickly.