Nostr solves my most basic frustration with ActivityPub, which is that some of my followers on different servers can’t see me because their admin said so. I’m tired of it.
We’ve been investing in the ActivityPub ecosystem for years. Nostr is a better protocol, but it lacks the years of work that went into making the Fediverse usable. However, things are moving fast. This is partly because of the protocol, which is easy to implement and gives clients a lot of control. It seems like only a matter of time until it overtakes the Fediverse, and I’d rather be a part of it than get left behind.
So the first thing I’ve decided to do is build a bridge. This bridge connects ActivityPub and Nostr together, so we can communicate across the pond. Everyone wins.
I actually don’t know how we would make a bridge. The tech seems pretty different. But we should be able to generate a private key for every user and have all events pushed to both nostr and lemmy. Think I still need to learn a bit more about it. I bet more people will join in on this effort and it would take a few people. I also never got great at federation code. alex here knows it really well. It would probably be easier to make a whole new ui than to port lemmy to nostr to be honest. I want to hear more people talk about how to do it before I say to much because I still don’t fully understand the nostr community spec.
@[email protected] might be worth checking to see if this bridge has everything we need and if not, get the missing parts up as enhancement requests.
lol i just posted this too
Great minds think alike
I’ll delete mine
Funny how мост (read like most with harder o) in Bulgarian means bridge
