I have seen some critical views on Nostr as a part of decentralized network discussions, but most seem to be focused on culture not function.

What are the functional / protocol differences that make you prefer ActivityPub over Nostr?

  • silverpill@mitra.social
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know much about recent developments, but the early version of the protocol had several major flaws:

    - Identity is based on a non-rotatable key, other types of identity are not supported.
    - No privacy without encryption.
    - Media attachments are not supported, all images are stored on a single server.
    - Servers only store data and don’t do anything else, so they get abstracted away and everyone uses the same 5 relays (in Fediverse each server has a personality, and that creates a strong incentive to self-host).

    There are also many minor things that I dislike, for example the use of numbers instead of human-readable names, unusual cryptography and so on.