The main purpose of using a blockchain and consensus algorithm to handle social media posts is to perform operations that Nostr seems to not be capable of supporting, e.g.
- A network wide community of content creators that aren't tied to specific servers.
- The means of the entire network being able to agree on the content of posts trustlessly.
I haven't used Nostr so I might be missing some things, but after reading about it, it looks like there is no guaranteed backup of posts/data. If you send your posts to a server (relay) and then the server is deleted, it seems like your posts would be lost - but maybe I missed something.
If that´s the case, that would be completely ridiculous. And no competition to Hive whatsoever.
By the way, I am a witness now, would you please vote for me? Many thanks.
Pretty much, yes. I did already vote for you but then removed it after reading your neuralink post.
Oh. Well, I think we can have different opinions in some topics. I thought we would be overall on a similar wave-length.
Thinking differently is fine, but there are limits to that when the future of humanity is at stake. AI represents the end of life on Earth when embraced. This has been predicted for 1000s of years - a parting of the ways where the majority of people destroy themselves through denial of their own internal essence.
We should embrace new possibilities. At least, you are using computers as well, right? With your argumentation, one could have said, computers bring the end of the world, enslave humans, manipulate and oppress them.
Not all possibilities are valuable. Any external technology does indeed pose a threat to the ultimate evolution of internal capacity, however, some is more extreme than others. AI cuts straight to the core of the spirit of life itself, bypassing emotion and the individual will. It is a rapid pathway to suicide. You will find if you make enough of the unconscious conscious that there are many programs operating within the human condition that equate to most people having an unconscious death wish, this is a very perilous situation and only a tiny number of people will resolve it. AI insertion into neurology guarantees evolutionary failure.
That´s how the evolution works since eons: Try new things out and if they fail they will vanish. Same here. Why would just this technology be so disastrous? Humankind is overall very resilient.
I think the wokeness/trans/cancel culture much more dangerous because it is an invisible virus which works against all natural drives of humans.
Yes that's my understanding if a relay nukes your content its gone, but you can post to multiple relays and "trust" that one of them would hold it because nuking peoples content wouldn't be good for people using your relay
Or if you want complete control just run your own relay
Full decentralisation does rely on each user being able to run their own node/server/relay, so it's a noble goal. However, without a consensus of the kind that is achieved on Hive, for example, many needed features are missing.
From what I can see, most of the items in the list of failings of Mastadon on the Nostr Github page also apply to Nostr.
Can you provide an example of features that are missing that would require consensus?