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masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 year agoWell, the idea that I can create my own pleroma instance, create an identity, and then go check out noagenda or whoever
I keep seeing this an as argument for the fediverse. But it really is not and i’ll tell you why.
If everyone who used the fediverse hosted their own instance they would indeed have decentralized identities.
But they don’t.
So in your example, yes you can create your instance and your identity will be separate from noagenda social. But what happens when noagenda social bans you?
Every single user on no agenda social is banned from seeing you.
But yea, that’s why I want to like nostr, mehbe someday a different client
This is fair. And i’m not married to nostr. I believe though in a year or two we should have a pretty solid solution. It’s an ok mastodon and twitter alternative for now. Uses a lot of data though.
logen@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
Yep, you’ve convinced me to give it another chance. I really should try out other clients, but android is what I usually use for reading, entertainment, etc… I have plenty of other computers though, I have no excuse.
I wonder if there is a way to change a private key. Say, mine gets compromised, without creating a new account.
masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
No private keys are sacred in nostr. Just like Bitcoin. You lose it you have to tell all your followers to re follow the new public key .
logen@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
I was thinking like how with gpg you can sign a subkey, use that, if it is comprimised you can send something out saying that the key is compromise and painlessly switch over to a new subkey since the master is only used to confirm subkeys.
Like Keyserver notes that this pubkey is bad, in this case nodes, the keyserver also notes that there is a valid new pubkey and transfers it over.
masterofballs@exploding-heads.com 1 year ago
I don’t really understand that. Sounds like there needs to be some kinda central authority for that to work. I would have to read more about it. The guy who made nostr is really good with crypto stuff though. Someone said he was a core bitcoin developer.