shahab on Nostr: Nostr is a social media platform that is designed to be decentralized and ...

Nostr is a social media platform that is designed to be decentralized and censorship-resistant. It is based on a simple and open protocol that enables global, decentralized, and censorship-resistant social media. The protocol is designed for simplicity and aims to create a censorship-resistant global social network. It uses standard elliptic-curve cryptography for keys and signing and the only supported transport is websockets connections from clients to relays. This makes it easy to write clients and relays and promotes software diversity. Because Nostr doesn't rely on a small number of trusted servers for moving or storing data, it's very resilient. The protocol assumes that relays will disappear and allows users to connect and publish to an arbitrary number of relays that they can change over time. Nostr accounts are based on public-key cryptography which makes it easy to verify messages were really sent by the user in question.