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Nostr is another protocol that is growing rapidly especially since Jack Dorsey discovered it a few days ago and is pushing it hard on twitter. He even made a 15
by drexlspivey 4y ago
Nostr is another protocol that is growing rapidly especially since Jack Dorsey discovered it a few days ago and is pushing it hard on twitter. He even made a 15 btc donation to its development fund.
Nostr is a more sane version of activitypub where your identity is just a public key and not dependant on any server, no signup required. Due to this it also natively support BTC payments and micropayments through the lightning network
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
- kinakomochidayo 4y agoWould touch if it’s blockchain agnostic, much prefer Ethereum rollups over LN
- red_trumpet 4y agoDo I unsterstand this correctly, that nostr is a bit like Mastodon but with replaceable instances ("relays")?
- schaefer 4y agoThanks! Nostr is now on my radar. And I think it’s great because it lets me address the primary issue in social media today: identity management. If it was signed by my public key, it’s me. P.s: do you know of any desktop rss readers that are also nostr capable? Cli preferred.
- eschaton 4y agoTo me, both being plugged by Jack Dorsey and taking cryptocurrency donations are indicators that this probably isn’t worth paying attention to. Anything that doesn’t start from a position of interoperability with ActivityPub is going to be an also-ran.
- r721 4y agoHN discussions of Nostr: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29749061 (11 months ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 (22 days ago)