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fiatjaf
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fiatjaf is a personal blog at fiatjaf.com about programming and systems. Since 2021, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “How IPFS is broken”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as background on Nostr's design, its differences from SSB, IPFS problems, and Bluesky's architecture. Commenters cite the posts as explanations rather than praising the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /nostr.html3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-02-06
- How IPFS is broken2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-22
- Bluesky Is a Scam2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
What Hacker News says?
10 months later, this description of Bluesky is still accurate: https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html
Comment linking /ab1127fb.html
on “Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters”Submitted How IPFS is broken as a story · 59 points
HN discussionThe biggest architectural difference is Nostr has no cryptographic association between the posts. But Nostr was launched as a response to SSB: https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html (scroll down to 'the problem with SSB' section)
Comment linking /nostr.html
on “Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform”Submitted Bluesky Is a Scam as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThx for sharing, didn't know that one. After reading https://radicle.xyz/guides/protocol my first impression it's the same as how it works with Nostr with one key difference in the conceptual model. Nostr uses relays to distribute the data and Radicle is using a gossip model to distribute the data peer-to-peer (the bittorrent model). They do explain the difference with a federated model. I miss the explainer compare…
Comment linking /b8e2f959.html
on “Gitworkshop.dev – Collaborate on code over Nostr”Submitted Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector as a story · 39 points
HN discussionProtocols have: - No accounts - No moderation - No permissions - No rules "My nsec is my passport. Verify... me?" I'm posting straight into the spec because it's honestly that easy to read, but there are plenty of lighter destinations. Motivation: https://fiatjaf.com/nostr.html Marketing: https://nostr.org/ Snowden: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybe09ImCnvk
Comment linking /nostr.html
on “Nostr is public key microblogging that works”Submitted Redistributing Git with Nostr as a story · 31 points
HN discussionWell now i kinda want to talk about Nostr. I heard of it before but i'm always wary of prototype projects dying. What's your opinion of Nostr? I like that they seem fond of SSB, and have the same opinions i do of SSB (and it's flaws!)[1]. Though i do find it odd that there doesn't seem to be more attention to somehow chaining/federating/propagating notes between relays. I don't think it needs a super robust method,…
Comment linking /nostr.html
on “Bluesky social network drops invite-only sign ups”Submitted A way to do an open and permissionless mesh network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSo you want to decentralize your website with IPFS (2017) https://macwright.com/2017/08/09/decentralize-ipfs IPFS, Again (2019) https://macwright.com/2019/06/08/ipfs-again How IPFS is broken (2020) https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html Why I Moved My Blog from IPFS to a Server https://neimanslab.org/2024-01-31/why-i-moved-my-blog-ipfs-t... These articles have HN submissions too, also see this relatively recent thread: I…
Comment linking /d5031e5b.html
on “Brave Deprecates IPFS Support”Submitted Drivechain as a story · 1 points
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