nostr-protocol/nostr on Hacker News

…might also try: nostr.com nostr.how nostr.net nostrich.love nostrhub.io usenostr.org And of course https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by jonstaab · 2026-04-11 · in Bluesky April 2026 Outage Post-Mortem

Nostr?! https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by clarkqaq · 2026-03-12 · in Show HN: s@: decentralized social networking over static sites

…your comment is being downvoted, first I heard of the protocol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/ Is that because of it being crypto adjacent?

comment by sitkack · 2025-01-19 · in We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky

…knew full well, and took advantage of the ambiguity. Sign things, and share them on relays. HtP https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by ynniv · 2024-05-07 · in Jack Dorsey Leaves Bluesky Board and Calls X 'Freedom Technology'

I think your best bet here is Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays): https://nostr.com https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr Nostr isn't a federated platform like Mastodon or Lemmy, it's more similar to the AT protocol…

comment by Heliodex · 2023-10-25 · in Ask HN: What is the next great online community?

Without movement on this [1] I can't see adoption. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/issues/97

comment by zhte415 · 2023-06-09 · in June 2023 Data Dump is missing

…spam: affiliate marketing, drop shipping crap, and people who are running some sort of con. 1 - https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr already has 8k stars on github

comment by creatorbytes · 2023-06-05 · in Social media for AI bots: “No humans allowed”

…by a compromised service blacklisted. I'm confused by the oversight. It's also been raised here https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/issues/97 Until then, I'll have to keep my updates of what I had for breakfast to myself.

comment by zhte415 · 2023-05-30 · in Twitter's Algorithm: Amplifying Anger, Animosity, and Affective Polarization

…on my part regarding utility, practicality, security or whatever, though. Nostr protocol: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33746360 Bluesky: https://bsky.app/…

comment by krapp · 2023-05-19 · in Ask HN: What real alternatives are there to Twitter?

That's what Nostr is designed to fix: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by fiatjaf · 2023-05-08 · in Bluesky Is a Scam

Nope – it is its own thing. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by erskingardner · 2023-05-01 · in Nostr – Decentralized social network

…you have any evidence that that doesn't give him any control, I'd be happy to see it Here you go: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/nips Not joking it’s a protocol and clients decide what standards they want to implement.

comment by irusensei · 2023-04-24 · in Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

Nostr’s GitHub page discusses the issues with SSB. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-ssb...

comment by leesalminen · 2023-04-24 · in Nostr (“Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”) – An Introduction

…nostr protocol is a better way of building a decentralized + censorship resistant social network. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-mas...

comment by KoftaBob · 2023-03-20 · in Mastodon hit 10M users

…public messages that a relay has, instead of just downloading messages posted by people you follow. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by legutierr · 2023-03-04 · in Jack Dorsey has set a 10 btc bounty for Nostr based alternative to GitHub

How does this article not mention nostr, given that Dorsey also funded nostr ( https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr )

comment by rmac · 2023-03-03 · in First Impressions of Bluesky's Brand New iOS App

We should pay very close attention to https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr as I think the future of app development is letting multiple clients implement their own custom UI layers on top of a shared core.

comment by mikestaub · 2023-02-11 · in The Future of Thunderbird

…me a while to get my head around it as well. The intro and faq on the github repo really helped me. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by larrysalibra · 2023-01-26 · in Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

The best introduction to Nostr is on the Nostr protocol github: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#very-short-summary-o... >Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post,…

comment by larrysalibra · 2023-01-26 · in Nostr: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays

How does Nostr work? (source: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#how-does-nostr-work ) * There are two components: clients and relays. Each user runs a client. Anyone can run a relay. * Every user is identified by a public key. Every…

comment by janandonly · 2023-01-24 · in Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr

…protocol that can create a censorship-resistant global “social” network once and for all. See also 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…

comment by janandonly · 2023-01-24 · in Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr

…It's basically a public key addressed messaging protocol that uses relays to complete transport. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by friend_and_foe · 2023-01-24 · in Snowden on the Lightning Network on Nostr

…it can easily be unlisted by clients, which can continue to fetch updates from other relays.[0] [0] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by jjulius · 2023-01-24 · in Edward Snowden Joins Nostr

…also have something that Twitter, FB and other SV platforms lack: a built in payment system. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by celtoid · 2023-01-20 · in Ask HN: What's Going to Replace Twitter?

…even listed as public domain[0]. Nostr will be widespread in near future, the next year or two. [0] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by celtoid · 2022-12-30 · in Matrix, the protocol that might finally make messaging apps interoperable

https://nostr.com/ and https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr and https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/

comment by gardenfelder · 2022-12-29 · in Nostr Is the Decentralized Protocol That Might Replace Twitter

…to get familiar with the protocol before trying it. I was lost until I did a little reading on it. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by celtoid · 2022-12-27 · in Coracle – a web client for the Nostr protocol

…losing your social graph due to a federated server admin shutting down their server or banning you. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by gemmy · 2022-12-21 · in Protocols, not platforms

…server. However Mastodon is gaining a lot more traction and seems to be good enough in practice. 1. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr 2. https://scuttlebutt.nz/

comment by iza · 2022-12-21 · in Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules

…bones backbone, one which developers can build their own social apps, standards, and so on. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by quickthrower2 · 2022-12-19 · in Ask HN: What would make a great developer-first social network?

…more or less matched my experience with Pluspora up until the point where it got shut down[2]. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#the-problem-with-mas... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/plexodus/comments/sy7e67/pluspora_p...

comment by omoikane · 2022-12-18 · in Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

Funny to see Nostr on the list just 2 days after Jack funded them https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-dorsey-gives-decentraliz...

comment by Raed667 · 2022-12-18 · in Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

Incredible that nostr made it on this list. A reason to check it out again: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by amadeuspagel · 2022-12-18 · in Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

…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…

comment by legutierr · 2022-12-18 · in Promotion of alternative social platforms policy

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr > How do I find people to follow? > > First, you must know them and get their public key somehow And here lies the main problem of most of these decentralized alternatives: how do you discover new…

comment by hk__2 · 2022-12-18 · in Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

…only from the single instance where it was posted to, which is similar to the Nostr approach. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr#very-short-summary-o...

comment by 323 · 2022-12-18 · in Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion

…Due to this it also natively support BTC payments and micropayments through the lightning network https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by drexlspivey · 2022-12-17 · in Post, the latest Twitter alternative, is betting big on micropayments for news

It's quite fun. Start here: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by qecez · 2022-12-15 · in Jack Dorsey donates to develop decentralized social network protocol [pdf]

…and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, therefore it works. [0] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by leesalminen · 2022-12-15 · in Jack Dorsey donates to develop decentralized social network protocol [pdf]

…and created an account, so there have been a flood of new users already in the last 16 hours. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr I recommend https://astral.ninja as a first time user as it's easy to generate a key pair, which you can…

comment by cqwww · 2022-12-14 · in A native internet protocol for social media

…have their own moderation policies or not, be paid or not or have other model) is the way forward: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by fiatjaf · 2022-12-14 · in How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

…access to the service they're interested in. I think Nostr looks very promising in that sense: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr Mind you, I don't think social media is worth reinventing. Connecting everyone on the planet is wrong on…

comment by imiric · 2022-12-13 · in How to rebuild social media on top of RSS

…something that you can set up now as a way to help with scalability. I am also closely following https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr to see how they go along, because I am growing weary of the "tech elite" that is moving to Mastodon…

comment by rglullis · 2022-12-06 · in Leaving the Basement

…a nostr relay, and I will probably take the christmas break to add a nostr relay to communick. [0] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by rglullis · 2022-11-29 · in Mastodon isn’t just a replacement for Twitter

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr literally says "it is not P2P".

comment by fiatjaf · 2022-11-26 · in Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr See FAQ, second question.

comment by TheSkyHasEyes · 2022-11-25 · in Nostr is a stupid simple P2P protocol that works, built by builders

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story by kdragon · 2022-11-25 · 128 comments

…There are servers that check to see if a user has paid before they execute the request too[2]. 1: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr 2: https://github.com/fiatjaf/expensive-relay

comment by olah_1 · 2022-11-21 · in Spiral’s Homomorphic Encryption – Is This the Future of Privacy?

Sounds a bit like the Nostr protocol. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr

comment by NortySpock · 2022-11-01 · in Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter

…replace Twitter right now, but they're interesting alternatives coming down the pipeline. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr [2] https://blueskyweb.org/

comment by Quindecillion · 2022-11-01 · in Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter?