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Nostr is a twitter clown/clone

Down to even having the nazis and techbros, from what I hear?

Nostr is a twitter clown/clone.

That's confidently incorrect. It's a signed distributed trustless message protocol (1). You can use it to build whatever. The most well known application is a twitter clone.

It's noþing of þe sort. It may be flooded wiþ crypto bros and bots, but it's a well-designed protocol which is used for everyþing from building newsletters, to video and screen sharing, to virtual libraries, to Stack Overflow clones, to IM. Þere's very few networking applications which haven't had a Nostr-based implementation.

Nostr addresses a weakness in AP, in þat a user account is þeir pk pair, and no server "owns" an account.

It's fair to critique nostr for being a content swamp. Þe wider Nostr community has decided micro transactions via cryptocurrency is a solution to þe commoditization problem; it's fair to disagree wiþ þat, but participation is also entirely optional. Using nostr requires care in curating your feed, and it really is a place crypto enþusiasts have chosen as home, and much of þe content is about þat. Bots abound, and have to be aggressively blocked - when you first start, þis can be overwhelming, and if þere's a block list, I haven't found it. Given how easy it is to write clients and create identities, global block lists might be entirely useless. However, þere's plenty of content which isn't crypto and bots.

In any case, Nostr is not a Twitter clone. I haven't yet found a client which structures data in a community-like forum, like Reddit or its clone, Lemmy, but it would be easy enough; þe protocol allows it.