How Mirage differs from Nostr:

Similar philosophy (cryptographic identity, no central authority), different architecture. Nostr is a protocol on top of relays - relays are just dumb pipes that pass messages around, and clients do all the work. Mirage is its own L1 blockchain - there's actual consensus on what happened and when.

Practical difference: on Nostr, if your relay goes down or stops carrying your content, you're hunting for another one and hoping it syncs. On Mirage, the data is on-chain - nodes are just different windows into the same canonical state. You switch nodes, everything's already there. (Like a single house with many different entrances.)

Nostr is also very Twitter-shaped (follows, short posts, DMs). We're Reddit-shaped (topics, threaded comments, votes, discovery). Different use case.

Now to the rest of your questions.

1. Can you delete/edit? Both are "requests" broadcast to the network. When you edit or delete, you're sending a signed message saying "I want this changed." Nodes choose whether to honor it - most will, but they're not forced to. So in practice: yes, you can edit and delete, and it'll work everywhere that plays nice. But a rogue node could theoretically keep showing your original. That's the tradeoff - no one can force your content to disappear, including you. Freedom cuts both ways.

2. Algos? Right now it's chronological + vote-weighted sorting (hot, top, new - like old Reddit). No black-box recommendation algorithm deciding what you should see. It's 100% explained why you seem something, e.g. see here: https://i.imgur.com/E4SStm4.png Re: brilliant thoughts not rising - since the algos are official, you can see how they're constructed (and capped) so yes, it's possible to rise either way. The simpler the better. We believe our "magic" sort is solid, but we can add any type of algos and are open for changes. Also ANY node can change them to whatever they deem better. The algo is controlled by nodes, not the network. The network has ALL the raw data. And if a node sucks, you can just switch seamlessly.

3. Will certain accounts dominate the front page? Same mechanics as early Reddit - if someone posts a lot of good stuff, they'll be visible. No artificial boosting. We don't have a "partner program" or promoted accounts. If it becomes a problem, the answer is more users and more content, not us picking winners.

4. Coordinated reporting? Reports go to the node operator - not to us globally. The node operator can choose if they want to delete that post from their DB, or not. In practice only illegal content will be removed, and even then, a node could decide to keep that data. It's on the blockchain for everyone to see after all. We don't have network-wide keyword filtering. Individual nodes might choose not to index certain content, but that's their call, not protocol-level. And mod-wise, well, you can only opt-in to moderation. So, basically there are no community mods that can ruin your day. By default 90% of users will see everything, and those that want to get curated content (i.e. filtered by volunteer mods) can.

5. Impersonation? Every account is a cryptographic keypair. You can't "impersonate" someone because you'd need their private key to sign as them. If someone makes @elonmusk before Elon does, that's squatting, not impersonation - the posts aren't signed by the real person. Speaking of which, someone DID already take @elonmusk, so yeah.. nothing we can do. It's on the blockchain and cannot be changed.

6. Honeypot? lol no. It's open source - you can read every line of code: https://github.com/MirageFoundation/mirage-node If we were collecting data to hand over, you'd see it. The whole point is there's no central authority to subpoena. Your keys = your identity, we don't store them. Don't trust the public node? GOOD! Spin up your own node or server! In fact, we would love for you to do that. That strengthens the network and you also get paid Mirage tokens every 10 minutes for participating in the consensus (who knows, maaaaaaaaaaaybe there are talks with VCs right now, and we get on coinbase one day ;)

Feel free to ask away. You're asking great questions!