Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders

I have been seeing a lot of shilling for mastodon lately, so I thought I would step in and shill Nostr for a bit.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

Fun facts about Nostr:

* Nostr stands for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”. It is an odd acronym, but I like it.

* Nostr uses websockets and relays to build a really simple P2P network. We also steal a few ideas from bitcoin (ECDSA ids, schnorr-signed events).

* Relays are simply dumb data stores for events that clients publish and subscribe to.

* Clients don’t trust relays to be honest, so all events are self-signed. Your pubkey is your userid.

* It is stupid simple to build a Nostr client. You can easily do it in less than 400 lines of JavaScript. And it runs in the browser.

(shameless self plug)
https://github.com/cmdruid/nostr-emitter

* Nostr is powerful enough to host chat apps very easily. Here is a rip of Telegram, running on Nostr:

https://anigma.io

* There’s a lot of fun things you can do with Nostr. Check out all these cool projects!

https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

* We are constantly discussing how to improve the protocol. Come join the conversation here:

https://t.me/nostr_protocol
https://anigma.io
https://damus.io
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips

Thank you for reading my nostr shill post. I did not create nostr, nor do I get any monies for promotion. I just think it’s really cool and I have a lot of fun building stuff that punches though nats.

If you have any questions about nostr please feel free to ask.

Also, Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I hope we’re all feeling fat and sassy today. 😀