Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) continues to gain traction and spread like wildfire. For those hearing about it for the first time, Nostr is a fully decentralized microblogging protocol (and not a platform, the way Mastodon is). It divides right down to the user account level, governed by an asymmetric key pair, which makes it even client agnostic […]
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Move over Mastodon, here comes Nostr
The latest Twitter challenger takes decentralization a step further Notes and Other Stuff, a.k.a Nostr is the latest decentralized microblogging protocol to take aim at centralized social media platforms. It’s like a decentralized Twitter. Contrast with Mastodon, where the decentralization is achieved via a federation of nodes (but each node is effectively centrally controlled), Nostr […]
