What’s the go-to URL you share for nostr-pilling folks?
The current moment is Nostr’s calling. Social apps being banned in Turkey, Venezuela, and Russia, UK citizens being targeted for online posts. Companies being held liable for online speech.
Huge opportunity to spread the vision of a permissionless, decentralized communications protocol
Theoretically yes. But is there a client with a UX that is usable by a normal human being? I'm using iris and it's quite bad. Or maybe I'm stupid?
the #protocolSociety is opt-in, peaceful anarchist grass-root endeavor. its the next iteration of how society organize and is all about designing protocols that have user-incentives as core value!
btw. what’s our answer for relays run by companies?
Hashed, encrypted info in the logs? I have no clue as I’m no developer.
The absence of a licensing scheme is a good thing. Reversal of that would be the more problematic part.
I can't recommended Nostr to political dissidents because the existing clients compromise peoples privacy to such an extent that they are even more exposed than using Twitter which at least has https (low bar). Clients need to build-in encryption by default.
Nostr relays can also work over TLS encrypted connections. In fact most do.
If the relay address starts with wss:// it is encrypted (web socket secure) and ws:// is unencrypted websocket connection.
Presumably big brother is doing mitm though. Something like I2P might be nice.
BTW thanks for pointing out wss and WS. I need to take a look at that.
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