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The issue with Mastodon is that your network ID is tied to the domain of the server you are connecting to. If you get kicked off of that server you can move to another one, but you effectively have to create a new account. You loose all your followers, etc.

Nostr fixes those problems. You can never lose your ID because it’s derived from your public key. You can be blocked from a relay, but it doesn’t matter because you can just switch to another one, and you are always connecting to multiple at the same time anyway. Following is managed on the client side, so it cannot be manipulated or disrupted.

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Run your own server of mastodon. Boom done

Edit: Then this Nostr will gain the same rep as Polerma as a haven for right wing wierdos for better or worse. Or maybe it will take off and who knows.

People don’t like running their own server. In public key infra like nostr and farcaster, you get the non-custodial ownership of your account without the technical and cost barriers involved in running a server.

Only in the same sense that the web is associated with right wing weirdos.

There is no algorithm or feed pushing content on you , so those people are by default completely invisible to you.

> If you get kicked off of that server you can move to another one, but you effectively have to create a new account. You loose all your followers, etc

Sure that's not a feature?

Hah for me it is.

The Alex Jones’s and Trumps and Fuentes’s and Kayne’s spewing their bile into a vacuum or even an isolated room into themselves (much like what Truth Social or Parler is) is a feature. They get to spew hate and dumb ideas and the rest of the civilized world need not hear or read it. Best of both worlds.

Have you ever considered deplatforming the average user drives them deeper down the right-wing hole? Trump and Fuentes are not in a vacuum talking to no one. They're talking to all the normans that were also deplatformed with them. Isolation breeds extremists. The only thing I agree with musk on is that limiting reach is better than deplatforming. Not for the reasons he thinks. People need to be able to dog pile and bully these idiots, and only weirdos are going to sign up on Truth Social just to do that.

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