Mastodon and Nostr, more decentralized alternatives to Twitter or Facebook are emerging and providing users with greater control over their posts and personal data.
Recently, Nostr in particular has become popular among Bitcoin users and has drawn support from prominent individuals including Twitter co-founder and longtime CEO Jack Dorsey and Edward Snowden.
So, what makes Nostr so special? āFor me, itās the simplicity, openness, and speed of development,ā Dorsey told Fortune via Nostr direct messaging. āItās not just about building a social media service, but rather to add resilience and resistance to a multitude of use cases and services. The focus now is on client and social, but the real power is going to be the microapps people build on this and how they seamlessly work together. I donāt see similar projects going after that goal.ā
Instead of having separate login details for the likes of Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, Nostr users are able to log into decentralized alternatives of these sorts of applications with a single set of credentials and not have to worry about their account getting banned or content being censored.
Many of Nostrās most prominent users were also early adopters of Bitcoin, including Martti Malmi, who was the second developer to work on Bitcoin after the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Malmi recently integrated Nostr into his own social media app, Iris, which has led to a massive increase in the number of users for the platform.
According to Malmi, the level of enthusiasm around Nostr is very similar to the early days of Bitcoin with perhaps an even faster speed of development.
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