What is Nostr, the fledgling software project to which Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey gave 14 bitcoin (worth approximately $245,000 at the time) in December following Elon Musk's controversial Twitter acquisition?
One consequence of Musk's takeover has been to accelerate the growth of alternative, more decentralized networks. Many journalists and Twitter users critical of Musk flocked to Mastodon, which Reason's C.J. Ciaramella described as "a collection of 'federated' independent servers, each centered around a topic…. It's like a mix of Reddit and Twitter, but less centralized."
