- 2025
- Jan
- 7
Federated but disassociated social networking via nostr.
There are some federated, but disassociated services out there if you’re technically inclined to use them.
Federated means that there’s a multitude of sites all speaking the same protocol, but none of them are under a central banner (i.e. reddit, twitter, etc.) Disassociated means that it goes one step further and breaks you off into a mini-site. Why? This removes the ability of a mod of a site being able to chose who can follow users of their site, or who the site’s users can follow. Censorship resistant to a degree.
I’ve joined one such system called nostr, via a web client called Satellite Earth. It’s relatively easy to join, you get a private/public keypair to remember and that’s it.
I’ve created a community called oldtech:
link removed, it’s deadl
and you’re free to join and post your old tech goodies. See you there!
The site changed. It’s still there, but it no longer provides communities, and I do not post there as of 1/1/26.