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Oh. So confused on how it works. I was doing some research when I found out about NOSTR. So I searched for an app I can use to get connected to this world. And viola! Here we are. I really dunno much on how it works

Hey that's awesome! Welcome aboard... it is a bit confusing at first. You can search and follow hashtags. You can use them to get your notes some reach too. #asknostr is great for questions. Looking through other's profiles follow lists can help too.

Heyy ! Nostr.apps is where you find all different services built on Nostr. For example I’m writing from Primal rn. Also check out nostr.world account on YouTube there are recordings of talks from the recent #nostriga conference with talks on every aspect of Nostr

Welcome fren Use the #asknostr tag for general questions. How can we help? Below is a long form explanation of NOSTR: NOSTR stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted on Relays and it is a social media protocol in the same way http is a web protocol. The protocol is open and anybody can build upon it. It has some fundamental concepts that are very different to existing social media platforms. Firstly it is decentralised, it runs across relays and anybody can run a relay. They can be open or closed, public or private, free or paid. Secondly, as a user, you don’t have an account, you have a private key, this is used to secure your data. These are the same type of keys used to secure Bitcoin. Your profile (account) is yours, you own and control it using your private keys and verified by others with your public key. Your posts are yours and you can store them on your own relay in your own home or business or you can rely on free public relays or more feature rich paid public relays. All your public data is signed by your private keys to verify it is you that owns it and all your private data is encrypted so nobody can read it. Messages (i.e. think NOSTR WhatsApp) are encrypted with your private keys so NOBODY can hack it or listen in, not even the NSA through a companies backdoor. You message other users privately by encrypting messages to them using their public key, which they decrypt using their private key. Relays talk to each other in the same way Bitcoin nodes relay information. Think of it a bit like BitTorrent. Data is normally sent on the clearnet, but can be relayed across the darknet (Tor) in highly censored regions. Because it is built using Bitcoin principles and technology, so it has Bitcoin money built in, meaning you actually send / receive money from / to any participant. As money is built in, the commercial options are different to centralised corporate owned platforms. It would be technically possible to build a platform that supports advertising, however that hasn’t really happened to date because influencers can be paid directly from their audience in many different ways. Ad hoc tips, subscriptions, pay to view or pay per time models. The great thing for content creators is that they control, own and keep all the money they make. There is no third party intermediary or merchant deciding whether they are allowed to be paid or not. NOSTR is censorship resistant, as there is no way to stop anybody publishing anything they want, in the same way nobody can stop or interfere with a Bitcoin payment. From an end users point of view, if they want to self censor, they can do this in multiple ways. You can mute users individually, or you can choose to use relays that adhere to your views or interests, so if you don’t want to see certain categories of content, you would avoid relays that carry those feeds. You can even run your own relay and curate content that you then charge other like minded users to connect to. You can of course connect to multiple relays for multiple different type of feed. While NOSTR is a protocol, platforms have to be built to use it, so the first platforms were twitter like clients and they are still very prevalent. However, NOSTR now has clients that emulate most social media platforms, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Soundcloud, WhatsApp etc. They are even creating their own categories as well as emulating other functions such as Office Suite tools or e-commerce shops. Once you’ve setup your keys, you can use those same private keys to access any platform you wish and you can use a browser extension such as Alby to manage your keys: https://getalby.com/

You can listen to podcasts via @fountain_app which is connected to Nostr since this week. It’s a value4value App where you can earn some sats everyday (little bits of #Bitcoin) by listening to episodes. Here is my show just as an example: https://fountain.fm/show/lzxAZpE8smy96tHvWURQ

Welcome! Here's a good starting place to get caught up 👇 nostr:nevent1qqs8ydcerseav9c5vpv49es0kn4ezdf057nk94u5snhdadhyy0223qgpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7q3qqqvt0m3nlvjnssmrn33w9yh7cuq2dx5nkz8wxax9hk5hrjdnj4jqxpqqqqqqztzjehg