[micro_charm]

The article doesn't support the claims of how nostr is better than mastodon.

From my quick glance at the site, it looks like relays are the equivalent to servers in mastodon, given that it's unclear why relay owners can't also ban you (as they suggest mastodon servers can ban you), why you can't post to multiple mastodon servers simultaneously (similar to broadcasting to multiple relays in nostr) and so on.

Nonetheless it's good to see the broader adoption of "account creation as equivalent to public/private key creation" in social media services

[piperswe]

With Nostr, your identity isn't attached to a relay, so if one relay doesn't like you other relays will still relay your content, while still keeping your followerbase

[pointlessone]

How would my followers (or whatever they’re called in nostr) know where to get my events from?

It seems like optimal strategy is to send to/fetch from every relay possible. Effectively, every relay would host the whole network. In this regard federation seem a little more scalable.

[leesalminen]

The main difference is that on mastodon your identity is tied to the server you registered on.

So, if a mastodon server bans you, you lose your account, your friends list, and your post history.

On nostr, your identity is a key pair and not tied to any particular relay. If a relay bans you, you can just connect to a new relay, re-broadcast your old notes to it, and keep going. Your friends list stays in-tact.

[erskingardner]

Yup spot on. The main issue though is that if you want to ensure that you have absolutely unassailable content, you need to run you own relay that ensures all your events are stored. You can’t assume that the relays you connect to via clients are perfect.

I imagine relay services will get better over time here but something to be aware of.