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Calling Nostr a social network to me seems like a category error. It's a messaging protocol. People might build a social network on top of it, but it's not necessarily going to have any of the properties Nostr has, the same way Facebook is built on top of html.

If you want to solve social issues at a protocol level, there need to be social mechanisms in the protocol. That would honestly be kind of interesting to see. But Nostr is just a reinvented networking stack.




Seems like it's more than that considering they have mobile apps coming that are definitely social networks.


I can build a social networking mobile app on top of HTTP but does that make HTTP a social network?




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