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Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr

61 points| sebastix | 4 months ago |gitworkshop.dev

https://nips.nostr.com/34

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ASalazarMX|4 months ago

Nostr is attractive as another decentralized social network, but crypto has tainted it so much that you can't dissociate the two, and that is not attractive at all.

sblom|4 months ago

Both technologies (cryptocurrency and nostr) are very cipherpunk—I'm not particularly surprised that they draw overlapping crowds.

Another take on decentralized source control with more of an emphasis on "federated" and less of one on "censorship resistant": https://tangled.org/

sebastix|4 months ago

What crypto? Cryptocurrency or cryptography? This first one is optional to be used with the protocol. The second not (see NIP-01 https://nips.nostr.com/1).

dmos62|4 months ago

I was curious so I researched a bit (read their landing page). I don't understand what you mean. It doesn't use cryptocurrencies, except as a way to tip others' content. Or, did you mean that you find the use of cryptography unattractive? That would be such a strange statement. Cryptocurrencies pioneered some awesome technology: I would think it a shame to avoid it just because of some cryptobros.

> Nostr uses the same cryptographic principles of Bitcoin and was kickstarted mostly by a community of Bitcoiners, so it has disproportionately attracted the attention of Bitcoiners at the start, but aside from that it doesn't have any relationship with Bitcoin. It doesn't depend on Bitcoin for anything and you don't have to know or have or care about any Bitcoin in order to use Nostr.

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> What about "zaps"? Zaps are a standard for tipping Nostr content using Bitcoin that is implemented by some Nostr clients, but it's fully and completely optional and if you don't care about Bitcoin you don't have to bother about it.