Maybe they mean Nostr? If so, describing it as "the bitcoin bros' network" is a bit misleading, since the "crypto" portion of Nostr is short for "cryptography", not "cryptocurrency".

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 14 points 2 months ago

Ah, so the kind of crypto bro, that instead of a fistbump, does a diffie-hellman key exchange instead?

[–] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah, no. I literally mean the majority of the community there. All I see there is blockchain and bitcoin shit.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think Nostr might unironically be my favourite platform, simply because it keeps those toxic morons away from the fediverse.

[–] blue_berry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

:D good one. My new favourite take on nostr.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

I really like the Nostr protocol, though. It's too bad the network is so inundated by cryptocurrency topics.

It's simple, it has a nice extension process (standing on the shoulders of giants), and it's super easy and lightweight to self-host. It reminds me a lot of the early days of http, when it was more common (as a developer) to telnet to port 80 and just type in a couple of lines of header and get a response.

Sadly, Nostr's association with cryptocurrency, and the fact that 90% of the traffic on it is cryptocurrency created posts, has been a severe handicap.