I wrote an article on the
@npub19f0y...wtcn newsletter about Substack Notes, Nostr, and other Twitter alternatives.
"Substack Notes feels very different from Twitter. And because it’s run by a different company, it is. But that company still holds the same power that Twitter held. Substack’s platform is centralized. They control the algorithm that determines the home feed. They can still censor or shadowban users. Yes, users still own their email lists and can migrate those elsewhere, but the creation of Substack Notes is an attempt to further lock users into the Substack platform specifically. And within Notes, they’re at the mercy of the company.
Nostr, on the other hand, takes a fundamentally different approach. It’s a free, open protocol designed to be resistant to censorship. Users aren’t locked into any single platform, app, or service. At the protocol level, they can’t be censored. If a single application or relay bans a user, they can simply migrate elsewhere. If a user doesn’t like the content algorithm of a particular app, they can use another. Users pay one another directly with Bitcoin, so there’s no financial middleman that can censor payments. Because users have full control of their identity via their key pair, they can plug into the network however they’d like."
Check it out!
Notes and Other Stuff
Exploring the Universe of Twitter Alternatives
