What is Nostr? Why did we make it? What can you do with it? This short little video will get you started in your explorations of Nostr; the protocol, and the network, dedicated to the free exchange of information.
Thanks for the introduction to Nostr . It's really got my curiosity going ❤ It could be the answer to many of my wishes and the wishes no one thought possible 😊
This has the potential of being a huge blow to the censorship industrial complex. The government would have to either try censoring open-source software, or arresting countless people across the world for not censoring content on their relays... both of which are too ridiculous and impractical even in today's authoritarian era. Thank you to all who made this protocol!
1:12 what are you on about? The protocol allows for paid relays and paid reactions (zaps). The thing's not good enough anyway.. It's another step forward, but it's not great. Centralised servers (relays) are still required, relays still have too much power (as compared to mastodon), and traffic is sent without any obfuscation (ex. garlic routing). You can use Nostr through Tor yourself, but why didn't they just make traffic obfuscation a default?
@@citizengen basically, a p2p network that obfuscates traffic by default and only retains content for two months. It wouldn't be perfect (as it would probably require clients to know of an entry node that has already established peers), but it would be more resistant to government and corporate censorship and it wouldn't require centralised servers for something as important as usernames. (tbh, I don't get why usernames couldn't just be hosted on relays in the same way posts are in nostr as it is.) I need to look into the Stellar Consensus Protocol and into specifics about how I2P works before I would be able to explain how everything would interplay.
