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- Very nice. You should consider rotating the label of a community periodically, not just triggered by rekey events. Makes it impossible or at least very hard for relay operators to delete the entire community by label.by grommz
- I signed up, I very much enjoy this. Similar enough to discord that you can just pick it up, but with improvements. The trick will be getting people to switch I think.by rythmshifter
- This is a great tool, really deserves more recognition that currently has.
Discord tries to fool with the concept of "servers" which really aren't, Armada is indeed giving full control where data goes and even on public NOSTR servers is kept safe/private beyond doubt.
by nunobrito - - big question to the experts out there reading this
- obviously anyone can code a discord clone, instagram clone or whatever
- how do you solve the 3 body problem? you need people and their people and their people on the platform to use the platform
- how do you go about getting the 1st 1000 people for something like this?
by vivzkestrel - avoid Zulip for a properly secure Discord replacement, givin its lack of (and roadmap refusal for) e2e; https://github.com/zulip/zulip/issues/6096by mxmilkiib
- Coincidentally I am looking for self-hosted alternatives to Discord for a local community where I live. I have been considering Matrix (one of the Rust implementations) + Element, so I wonder what makes this a better or worse alternative, but there seems to exist no comparison table/chart.by mongrelion
- Horribly vibe-coded like most of the Nostr projects out there. There is no sign of quality or technical interest in this project. There is also this tendency to build black boxes that do not show the innards of the protocol for reasons of "user-friendliness". The project does exactly this, to its detriment. Just like Mastodon and Matrix, most people will be centralized on the few Nostr relays set by default.by coldblues
- "Chat apps belong to whoever runs the servers. Armada is spread across free public servers." https://armada.buzz/
The key is to make the server a browser tab. Make it possible for normies to run a server. I suppose CORS would be the problem. Would a browser extension work?
"ZeroNet and KAD (distributed hash tables) ...every member of the network donates a certain amount of storage and bandwidth (adjustable at will) without being able to choose which specific scrap of content to host...The biggest immediate problem, however, is that there isn't a single, easily hostable piece of software that includes everything Nostr is ready to do now."
by adrianwaj