inpc on Nostr: Yeah I tend to think of it as ActivityPub protocol, not just Mastodon. Like you say, ...

Yeah I tend to think of it as ActivityPub protocol, not just Mastodon. Like you say, PeerTube, Owncast, Castopod are all great tools. I really wish there was something akin to Owncast on Nostr, it's very simple to self host and use.

I know there's people here workling on that stuff and Blosson servers etc. exist but I'm not techy enough to navigate (yet) and ActivityPub has a few years on Nostr making things easy to use (my whole set up is based on Yunohost that takes a lot of the hard work out of self hosting).

I really dig Nostr as a protocol as it solves a number of Fediverse problems, there's the Home Owners Association situation you outlined but also interoperabilty in ActivityPub is hard, eg. my PeerTube instance doesn't really play well with GoToSocial (what I use instead of Mastodon) and I can't follow my own Castopod instance, I still struggle to follow other PeerTube instances, it's still a mystery to me after using it for years!

Nostr has the power for me to control all those services witha single Npub which solves a lot of issues but there's a long way to go. Also Peer 2 Peer payments is a real super power that I wish more people recognised. Obviously Fediverse is massively anti-corporate but yet still any creatives on the platform are needing to use Stripe/Patreon etc. if they're trying to sell their work. Many have taken an absolutist 'anti crypto' stance, which I understand on one level but also recognise money is money and the more middlemen we can remove in transactions the better.

I think we can learn a lot from the Fediverse, while improving on it. The music community there really is impressive, with big collabourative projects, an Indie Music TV station, compliation albums etc etc.