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a truly censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter that has a chance of working
68 mentions on Hacker News by 51 people: 4 stories, 64 comments · first 2020-11-15 · latest 2026-04-11
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It makes more sense if you read https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
comment by tony-allan · 2022-10-12 · in How to decentralise social media, no blockchain needed -
…to use a smart contract to maintain a name registry without requiring a single controller. [1] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr [2] https://github.com/farcasterxyz/protocol
comment by mattdesl · 2022-10-07 · in Mastodon.technology Shutdown -
Well there's nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr It solves this problem of being tied to a domain.
comment by betwixthewires · 2022-09-30 · in Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 -
Meh, you don't need a blockchain for any of this. Look at nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr There's also Revolver https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/revolver-kickoff.h... it is in development and very interesting, will…
comment by betwixthewires · 2022-07-12 · in Sufficient Decentralization for Social Networks -
…would need yet another decentralized social media protocol. Happy to answer any questions :) [1]: https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
comment by jb55 · 2022-07-03 · in The social network you control -
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Nostr Protocolstory by modinfo · 2022-06-12 · 9 comments
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…has a different approach to decentralization and doesn't trap your identity with your home server https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr there is a reddit clone and a twitter clone implemented with this protocol as well https://nvote.co/…
comment by khimaros · 2022-06-12 · in Open Source federated link aggregator in rust -
nostr ( https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr ) seems to be a minimal possible solution. It doesn't seem to be much in use though, so I guess once that happens a few issues will come up.
comment by Ambolia · 2022-04-27 · in Ask HN: Why can't I host my own email? -
…and it would need some interesting application built on top of it to make it usable. [1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
comment by Ambolia · 2022-03-11 · in Facebook to allow calls for violence against Putin -
…the answer you’re looking for because it’s not tied to a cryptocurrency but take a look at nostr: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr It’s a protocol that allows nodes to gossip event messages amongst each other. The event relays can be used…
comment by rdbell · 2022-01-30 · in Ask HN: Getting started with Web3 ("decentralized web") development -
…between mappings from different sources, of course, but this is reasonably well thread ground. [1] https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr/blob/master/nips/02.md
comment by vidarh · 2021-12-31 · in Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter -
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Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitterstory by Cameri · 2021-12-31 · 138 comments
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see also https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
comment by janandonly · 2021-12-28 · in Nostr is a new social network protocol -
…but it's evolving into a generic suite of many subprotocols that involve interaction between users. https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr Kinda like the "fediverse", but improved in the sense that it is not federated, but also not P2P (because…
comment by fiatjaf · 2021-12-10 · in Avoiding Internet Centralization -
…need any kind of account on a specific server. I could also post markdown files over that too. [1]: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr
comment by olah_1 · 2021-11-20 · in Lagrange: A desktop GUI client for Gemini -
…which you can be banned very easily, there exists a solution that takes the best of both worlds: https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr . Basically it works like this: > Everybody runs a client. It can be a native client, a web client, etc. To…
comment by fiatjaf · 2021-01-31 · in Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal -
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Nostr – The final solution to Twitter censorship as an open protocol, not P2Pstory by fiatjaf · 2020-11-15 · 6 comments