isn't it exclusively inhabited by bitcoiners? and relies on never leaking your private key, with no recourse for key rotation? or am I out of date

We had NIP-26 Delegated Event Signing, so you could set up multiple private keys with short expiration times delegated from a root key, then if one of the delegated keys was leaked you could just wait for it to expire. This ended up being considered a bad idea as clients that supported it would have to display any notes as if they were sent from the root key, and clients that didn't support it wouldn't be able to keep track of anyone using delegation.

I was really impressed with a presentation I attended at the internet identity workshop detailing KERI, Key Event Receipt Infrastructure. I wish someone would integrate it into a social network so I don't have to do it myself.

Landing page: https://keri.one/

Whitepaper: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/whitepape...

nostr was cool and simple concept until you met tens of thousands of NIPs.

That's how it looks like currently. Nostr is the open protocol whereas Bluesky is the more open platform.

Bluesky is building ATProto (https://atproto.com) which is an open protocol that you can build many types of social apps on top of

Protocols > platforms. Nostr will win long-term because it is a protocol.

XMPP would like to have a word

Yes, that's why people go to Usenet for their discussions and not Reddit.

This isn't tenable because you need to do moderation and spam filtering, which require centralization.

Who is "you"?

For platforms I mean the owner of the platform, and for protocols I mean the theoretical person who the users would be wishing owned it so they could do spam filtering.

Bluesky has ATProto (https://atproto.com), so both have open protocols