WendyDing on Nostr: As of now, academic research on decentralized social protocols includes Mastodon with ...
As of now, academic research on decentralized social protocols includes Mastodon with over 70 papers, Bluesky with 10+, Farcaster with 7, and Nostr with only 4. Mastodon has seen the most extensive study, while the relatively small body of research on Farcaster is somewhat surprising. Given Web3’s momentum in academia, one would expect more work on Farcaster.
From July to September last year, YakiHonne participated in academic conferences at the University of Hong Kong, Nanyang Technological University, and ITSC in Bilbao, Spain, where we introduced Nostr to researchers. At the time, very few had even heard of Damus. Three weeks ago, we provided 10 Nostr-related research topics to academics studying decentralized social networks. Some challenges were raised, particularly regarding Farcaster’s research, but we eventually settled on an empirical analysis of Nostr.
That said, this is still far from enough. Nostr deserves its own dedicated decentralized research group.
The Bluesky team has an academic paper describing the protocol that’s a pretty good high level but somewhat technical overview. It includes how they see Bluesky compares to Secure Scuttlebutt, Nostr, Farcaster, and ActivityPub/Mastodon.
I think folks who are building Nostr apps or advocating for it in comparison to Bluesky would do well to read it to understand what they’re doing and how we’re different.
We should also write up one for Nostr.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239
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