Tag: Network
The Meteoric Rise of Nostr
The brand new protocol is seeing a huge early adoption driven by discontent with established social networks
After the acquisition of Twitter by the South African con-man and billionaire the free and open source social network world is generating a lot of heat. The number of users and nodes of Mastodon in particular and the Fediverse at large has been climbing steadily for months now. However, there is no shortage of people who voice their concerns about the federated nature of such services, which rely on centralized instances governed by small dictators with absolute power. But this is not the post to discuss these issues.