AT Protocol, which Bluesky acts as an app view and full ATP stack suite for, is decentralized in protocol. In practice, however, +90% of the entire AT Protocol user-base is on (and will always be on) Bluesky, making it de facto centralized.

People are both right and wrong in criticizing Bluesky here. Bluesky is centralized, mostly—both in the sense that it's a centralized AT Protocol host but also in the sense that +90% of AT Proto accounts are on, and will probably always be on, Bluesky. AT Protocol has the capability of being decentralized, and "de jure" is insofar as being a decentralized protocol. De facto, however, it's not decentralized.

Nostr has a huge problem with clients, onboarding, user-base + community, among other various issues and "teething pains". However, between Activity Pub and AT Protocol, Nostr is the best technical implementation of a decentralized social network and has the greatest potential.

Slam dunk an Israeli into the trashcan.

roundhouse kick an israeli into the concrete

Want to learn how to write my own code so that I can build an actually good NOSTR client.

Eliminate Israel.

Is there a way to set content filters on NOSTR clients? For example, if I never wanted to see or hear the word "bitcoin" ever again.

There are a few features and abilities that NOSTR has which the Fediverse lacks. However, Fediverse/ActivityPub development is deeply fractured and lacks a cohesive, unified standard or implementation scheme which would allow for feature and ability developments to be made and incorporated. Furthermore, lots of the Fediverse has convinced itself that it doesn't want or otherwise need additional features (e.g. nomadic identities) because these features are either "bloat" or would lead to "extensibility hell" or are "already implemented" (albeit in an unfinished and half-baked state without widespread support or adoption) in some Fediverse project. I think the Fediverse is often its own worst enemy. I don't know if NOSTR will continue to develop and evolve or thrive in the future. ---But, at least I see NOSTR iterating and maturing and polishing as a protocol. #NOSTR #Fediverse

You're not capable of reading?

So, do NOSTR relays store data indefinitely? Like, with a database(s)? Or, do they function more akin to exit nodes for messages? 🤔

What country would that be? 🤔

Really looking like I'm finna' just make money and be depressed and die alone. 🥲

Possibly it does not, or cannot, run as a background process? On Android it asks to remove battery optimization ostensibly in order to continue functionality in the background. I don't know about iOS. I've also not yet been able to test it out in the wild yet as nobody else utilizes it.

I want to learn more about cryptocurrency in a functional, practical sense. I don't really understand how, for example, Bitcoin is capable of facilitating huge quantities of transactions---a prerequisite for a currency---with its paltry TPS. I'm surprised that more liquid and performant cryptocurrencies like Algorand aren't more popular for general transactions on networks like NOSTR.

Yeah, see, you're kinda proving my point.

Tried out Bitchat. It's pretty cool! I think it could have some usefulness in the future if it matures and grows in adoption. #bitchat

I think it would be pretty cool to host a NOSTR relay and `NIP-05` service.