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Jack still trying to make Nostr relevant in 2026

I also wonder how Nostr is useful here. The central idea of Nostr is that it's a lot harder to deplatform people, because a user can publish to several independent relays. Buzz is self-hostable, which removes the risk of deplatforming.

You may want to participate in multiple communities hosted by different people, but with the same identity everywhere. Provably you to anyone that reads your messages.

Why not use Nostr? Why come up with something else entirely that would be just a worse version of Nostr at best?

Honestly: I don't get what the benefit of Nostr is for this use-case.

Initially I didn't see much benefit either, my point was just that there would have to be some interface that the client and server would have to speak, right? So why not Nostr? Why invent a new one? It could not benefit anyone, but also wouldn't hurt.

Later some actual advantages came to my mind, as I was writing this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022183

Nostr is a good protocol but Jack (i hope you read this) the real power comes from simplicity.

I assume Jack has money. I do not understand why building a product is the goal when the platform is where the communication transformation is needed.

nostr needs a type of simple dns for keys. Jack would understand.

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