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What is Nostr?

The open protocol behind the most interesting apps on the internet.
Here's why it matters.

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Forget what you’ve heard

You don’t need to care about decentralization to love what’s being built on Nostr. You just need to try it. Games that run inside social feeds. Profiles you can theme like personal planets. An ecosystem of apps that all talk to each other – so you never lose your stuff.

Nostr stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays. The “Other Stuff” is where things get interesting.

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What makes it different

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One identity, every app

Play a game, browse a marketplace, and scroll your feed – all knowing who you are. No new accounts, ever.

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Way more than posts

Games inside your feed. Live streams. Collaborative lists. Things nobody has invented yet. This is the “Other Stuff.”

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Nothing gets left behind

Find something better? Move. Your followers, posts, and history come with you automatically.

This is what the internet was supposed to feel like. Not a handful of walled-off apps fighting for your attention -- a shared, open playground where anyone can build.

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How it actually works

Now that you know what it feels like – here’s the simple machinery underneath.

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Keys, not accounts

You don’t “sign up” – you generate a keypair that lives on your device. No corporation between you and your identity.

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Relays, not servers

Your stuff lives on relays – pick as many as you like. No single point of failure, no single company in control.

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The protocol evolves through NIPs (Nostr Implementation Possibilities) -- proposals anyone can write. The community shares and discusses custom NIPs on NostrHub.

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Why this matters

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The old internet

  • Same black-and-white squares everywhere
  • Your identity belongs to a corporation
  • Everything locked inside walled gardens
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Nostr

  • A playground of wild, creative apps
  • Your keys, your identity, forever
  • One open ecosystem, infinite possibilities
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Ready to see it for yourself?

It takes about 2 minutes to get started. No, really.