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I see a lot of question here and will try to answer them all in one big go: 1. What is Nostr? > Nostr is short for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay
by janandonly 4y ago
I see a lot of question here and will try to answer them all in one big go:
1. What is Nostr?
> Nostr is short for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays". Nostr is the simplest open protocol that can create a censorship-resistant global “social” network once and for all. See also https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
2. How do I start using Nostr?
> Since it's an open protocol, everyone could (and quite a few people and teams do) build their own client for using Nostr.
> If you want to try it out on an iPhone, iPad or macOS, try Damus. It's a Twitter-style iOS client. Link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/CLwjLxWl https://testflight.apple.com/join/CLwjLxWl
> Or simply log-in via one of several frontends what work in a browser, such as: https://hamstr.to/home https://hamstr.to/home
3. Nostr is new and small, does anybody really use it?
> From December 13th to January 10th, the number of public key identities interacting with Nostr jumped from ~700 to ~250,000 Yes, you read that right, the number of identities increased >30,000%. You can check for yourself current statistics on usage here: https://nostr.io/stats https://nostr.io/stats
4. How does it differ from ActivityPub?
> ActivityPub, and especially Mastodon, have been in the news a lot lately as possible replacements for, among other things, Twitter. The problem with ActivityPub is that you need to have an account on a instance that can censor contend and even block a user. When you are kicked off an ActivityPub instance, all your data is gone as well. Nostr is much simpeler: every post you make is encrypted via public key cryptography. You can either run your own relay or hook into one of several existing once. Even if a relay were to block you, it's trivially easy to switch to another one. Since you can post messages via multiple relays in one go, you might not even realise one has gone off-line or started blocking you.
For a comparison with ActivityPub, Twitter, Secure ScuttleButt, see also: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#this-is-needed-because-other-solutions-are-broken https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#this-is-needed-becau...