Dr. Hax on Nostr: Almost all of it looks good to me. I would strongly disagree with "privacy" being set ...
Almost all of it looks good to me.
I would strongly disagree with "privacy" being set to "high" for nostr. You can't even have a followers-only account on nostr, whereas you can on basically every other platform (and protocol).
When everything is public and it's trivial for anyone and everyone to track everything you do by default... I wouldn't call that "high privacy".
Other than that, there are only a couple other improvements that I can think of:
1. Have some kind of color coding or iconography to make it easy to compare at a glance without reading anything (e.g. red, yellow, green)
2. Include ActivityPub as another decentralized protocol. I get that it's hard to balance overwhelming the reader and leaving out other options. There are protocols like Briar which have real privacy, security, decentralization and identity, but lack in portability and interoperability.
I'd call privacy on ActivityPub to be medium, nostr = low, and centralized platforms = medium.
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