Mike Masnick ✅Look, if you're seeing this, you can probably totally ignore this, but if you like playing around with even more protocol-based social networks, I'm playing around with Nostr and my public key is: 4d53de27a24feb84d6383962e350219fc09e572c22a17c542545a69cd35b067f
Louis Ingenthron@mmasnick It's like a Wii friend code but somehow worse.
Jeff 
@mmasnick @LouisIngenthron This was my CompuServe ID! What are the odds of that happening?
Michael Gagnon@mmasnick we'll reinvent IRC in no time flat. A few years from now we'll rediscover that RSS was a good idea too and then we'll REALLY be cooking... Time is a flat circle!
Stan Gunn@michaeldgagnon @mmasnick I think we should bring back Usenet — rot13 encryption, Kibo, all of it.
Joel Webber@mmasnick Thanks for the pointer. Just decided to give it a try for schnitzengiggles. Public key: 4bce78620b18af1221e53444bbc0782034b55993a9be5889f5f409184a7ba911
Mewn25🏳️🌈🌊🫡@mmasnick thanks Mike! Really happy to be following you here as well!
tryggth@mmasnick look at Synadia NGS. They've built out a global extensible network which already has the basic stuff in it. Just add the schema
@mmasnick I believe Derek, who knows as much about distributed messaging as anyone, is thinking hard about the microbloging space
William Gunn@mmasnick The docs are very handwavy about dealing with spam. I suspect that if the protocol gains traction, they'll have similar issues as email.
semiquaver@mmasnick seems great for activism *or* crime! Pretty fun on the command line...
Pinky Floydi couldn't get anywhere with nostr
i don't know what i was doing wrong. registered, made a profile, then later logged in somewhere else and i was just a new user.
@pinkyfloyd oh it's crazy buggy. but it's fun to play with.
@mmasnick what are you using as a client? i was on something Jack recommended but it wasn't working and now I can't find the freaking thing. started with "Co" i think.
and why did i upload profile information then when i logged on again it was gone?
anyhow i'm going going to fool around here for a while, i launched a server also, just to play with.
@pinkyfloyd i started with nostr.rocks. and then switched to https://damus.io/web/ . Both are buggy but switching back and forth between the two seems to get some semblance of... a thing.
The one that was recommended was probably Coracle? It's... eh. https://coracle.social/
yes! coracle. it just spun and spun. i did a search and somehow got jack to pop up but then he disappeared 😂
and then the aforementioned profile setup and subsequent loss.
i'll stay here/twitter for a minute, see how this goes.
WSHuff@mmasnick that’s so weird. That was so totally the public key in my parents house when I was a kid.growing up in the 80s.
K. Ryabitsev-Prime 🍁@mmasnick seems like it's kinda like nntp with message signing.
Aerik@mmasnick That's really cool, I hadn't heard of Nostr. Personally I fall in the camp with the P2P fans philosophically, but have some kind of server relay / cache solves a lot of problems.
Trying to understand how Nostr handles identity - is it just the private key? I guess that gives you "I, the publisher of this note, am the same publisher of that note which was signed by the same key"
Serverless identity is a big deal by itself.
@Aerik yup, seems to be exactly that. just incredibly simple. of course, super early and super buggy. but very very simple.
Someone there joked to me that until tonight there were more clients available than users...
rrg@mmasnick There were a couple of 100+ comments discussions on HN if you are interested:
1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061 (11 months ago)
2) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 (21 days ago)