Mike Masnick ✅Dec 17, 2022
Look, if you're seeing this, you can probably totally ignore this, but if you like playing around with even more protocol-based social networks, I'm playing around with Nostr and my public key is: 4d53de27a24feb84d6383962e350219fc09e572c22a17c542545a69cd35b067f
Show threadAerik

@mmasnick That's really cool, I hadn't heard of Nostr. Personally I fall in the camp with the P2P fans philosophically, but have some kind of server relay / cache solves a lot of problems.

Trying to understand how Nostr handles identity - is it just the private key? I guess that gives you "I, the publisher of this note, am the same publisher of that note which was signed by the same key"

Serverless identity is a big deal by itself.

Dec 17, 2022 at 5:36amWeb
Show threadMike Masnick ✅Dec 17, 2022

@Aerik yup, seems to be exactly that. just incredibly simple. of course, super early and super buggy. but very very simple.

Someone there joked to me that until tonight there were more clients available than users...