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Q&A: Ditto says social media became sterile and the internet should be fun again

I recently spoke with Derek Ross from Soapbox for a sponsored Q&A about Ditto, the open source Nostr-based social platform that is trying to bring personality, customization, and weirdness back to the internet. We talked about internet nostalgia, why modern social media feels sterile, decentralized moderation, bridging Mastodon and Bluesky, virtual pets, AI slop, and why the team believes people are exhausted by algorithm driven feeds. Even if you are skeptical of decentralized social media, I think the interview raises some genuinely interesting points about what the modern web has become.

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u/OkReport5065 — 3 days ago
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The algorithm doesn't show your best content. It shows content that keeps people angry and scrolling. YakiHonne has no algorithm. Your words speak for themselves.

u/Ornery_Cup4095 — 3 days ago
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I "hijacked" the Nostr protocol to build a decentralized Serverless WASM cloud in Rust (Zero AWS costs)

Hey everyone,

My uncle recently told me I was wasting time not studying traditional finance. Out of pure spite, I spent the last week doing a hyper-focus sprint to build a decentralized Web3 infrastructure from scratch.

The coolest part I want to share with you is the VOID-COSMIC_VPS. It’s a distributed computing engine that essentially creates a serverless cloud out of thin air.

How it works:
Instead of TCP/Sockets or traditional message queues, I used Nostr as a global task broker. I created a custom event (Kind 31222).

  1. The client publishes a computational task to Nostr relays.
  2. The "Animus" worker node (written in Rust) listens to this event.
  3. It pulls the WebAssembly (WASM) payload via IPFS, executes it in a secure sandbox, and publishes the result back via Nostr (Kind 31223).

I'm getting around ~2s latency for remote WASM execution without a single centralized server.

Built entirely in Rust and WebAssembly. Would love to hear your thoughts on using Nostr relays as a global MapReduce queue!

Repo: https://github.com/bmcc-DEV/VOID-COSMIC_VPS

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u/Public-Evidence-9354 — 4 days ago
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Working on a new Nostr relay implementation in C

Hello everyone

I’ve been working on a new Nostr relay called Nostrum — focused on being simple, lightweight and fast.

Some features/goals:

Simple and clean architecture

Good performance and low memory usage

Easy self-hosting

Open source (BSD 3-Clause)

Project link: https://github.com/henriquetft/nostrum

I’m actively developing it and would really appreciate feedback, bug reports, ideas, or contributors interested in relay development.

If you test it, let me know what you think!

u/henrique_tft — 10 days ago
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Ditto wants to bring back the weird customizable internet people actually loved

Ditto just launched, and it may be one of the more interesting attempts yet at making Nostr feel approachable to normal people instead of just protocol nerds and Bitcoin maximalists. The app blends Nostr with Mastodon and Bluesky support, while leaning heavily into profile customization, weird internet creativity, portable identity, and user ownership. It honestly feels closer to old school MySpace energy than modern social media, and I’m pretty excited to see someone trying to make the decentralized web feel fun again instead of purely technical.

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u/OkReport5065 — 8 days ago
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Your Instagram username is not yours. Your X handle is not yours. The platform owns it. You're just renting space on someone else's land.

u/Ornery_Cup4095 — 10 days ago
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Airbnb on nostr: hostr.network

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u/InterviewDefiant5734 — 11 days ago
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THE CREATOR ECONOMY LIE They Called It the Creator Economy. Here's Who Actually Got Paid.

u/Ornery_Cup4095 — 12 days ago