nostr

That's only true if you choose to introduce a global namespace. There's nothing requiring you to have just a single such catalog of users as long as the canonical reference is the pubkey any more than the contact list on my phone requires you to name people the same on your phone. (and in fact on reading the protocol specs, they do have a way for relays to publish mappings [1] . EDIT: and that would seem to make it possible for crawlers to crawl relays to assemble non-canonical catalogs fairly easily). There are downsides to having multiple namespaces, such as e.g. that there's no guarantee that your client will be able to map a given pubkey back to a human-readable name and/or dealing with collisions between mappings from different sources, of course, but this is reasonably well thread ground. [1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr/blob/ma

see also https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

If you read this you might be interested in this protocol which started as an idea for truly censorship-resistance Twitter but it's evolving into a generic suite of many subprotocols that involve interaction between users. https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr Kinda like the "fediverse", but improved in the sense that it is not federated, but also not P2P (because pure p2p doesn't scale).

The difficulty of hosting my own pages makes me prefer a system like Nostr[1] where the user doesn’t need any kind of account on a specific server. I could also post markdown files over that too. [1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr

Between inefficient and bad for privacy P2P DHTs and completely centralized or federated models from which you can be banned very easily, there exists a solution that takes the best of both worlds: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr. Basically it works like this: > Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else, or yourself). To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb. It does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding to others. Relays don't have to be trusted. Signatures are verified on the client side.