awesome-nostr

I am a huge fan of RSS (Atom) and was really hoping for a comeback... I feel like it unfairly died out because of Google Reader's sudden demise and was hoping some new equally popular client to show up and take over. I even spent some time creating one. But for the past year or so I have been falling down the Nostr rabbit hole. Nostr is a lot like RSS, but it really is better and without getting much more complicated! You can write a Nostr client that simply does what a RSS reader would do (fetch status updates) in a couple of lines without external libraries. And the Nostr ecosystem has been growing so much over the past months, it is getting hard to keep up! It seems to be really getting the momentum I was hoping RSS to regain. PS: For those that are curious about Nostr and don't know where to start, have a look at the NIPS [1] and of c

Apologies for the cold boot problem I picked the first web link I found. Some clients keep their way to offer recommendations. See one list here: https://github.com/aitechguy/nostr-address-book Having a starting point and seeing accounts interacting it'll be easier to pick up the ones that interest you. Check out more at https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

There are some activitypub apps that support nomadic identity like HubZilla and Streams: https://codeberg.org/streams/streams Another non-activitypub alternative is nostr, where your identity is a public/private key pair: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

Nostr is just a protocol, and there are already many different implemented clients to interface with it. https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr#clients

In case anyone else hadn’t heard of this: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr From only a few minutes of reading (so I might be off), it looks like if multicast packets were saved by routers and you could ask for tcp-style retries later.

Agree. Furthermore, the fact that basically anyone can run their own relay makes it very decentralized. See also: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr

Nostr is perhaps the most interesting of the list. Fully decentralized; messages are cryptographically signed; users are identified by their private keys; following is done on the client side, with no stateful server-side component; messages broadcast via stateless relays. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr Overall design seems very simple. It feels a bit like email, in the sense that you could probably put together a barebones implementation like sendmail and still be fully functional.

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

is did spec from bluesky community? anyway, looks like nothing tangible yet. I am excited about what Nostr[0] is doing is instead. Looks much simpler way to approach the problem. [0]: https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr