Nostr is a free and open-source protocol for social media and other things - controlled by users, not platforms.
Nostr - Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays
Nostr is an inclusive communication commons. A simple standard that defines a scalable architecture of clients and servers that can be used to spread information freely. Not controlled by any corporation or government, anyone can build on Nostr and anyone can use it.
Explore Nostr Apps
Join your peers in a healthy social network. Nos is our Nostr client for humans, not algorithms.
Building Nostr - A Guide for Developers
Web of Trust | Nostr Compass
Technical resource for the Nostr protocol. Weekly newsletter covering NIP proposals, client updates, relay developments, and notable code changes.
did:nostr - a Nostr key is a decentralized identifier
A W3C DID method where a Nostr public key resolves to a DID document. No registry, no chain, no minting.
Home - Nos: The Human Network
A decentralised mesh of communities and individuals built by and for the people. Nos is social media for humans, not algorithms.
Trusted Assertions by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #1534 · nostr-protocol/nips
Certain calculations in Nostr require access to the entire dataset of events and are impossible to do directly by Clients. This PR offers a simple way for users to declare trust in service provider...
Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr
P2P and federated protocols converge toward becoming Nostr, but with extra steps
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop
Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.
We Can Just Build Things
Build the tools your community needs — production-grade, privacy-respecting freedom tech, made with an AI agent and grounded in a verified, values-aligned catalog (Nostr, AT Protocol, and beyond).
shreyan - Nostr and ATProto
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.
shreyan - Nostr and ATProto
This post could’ve been titled “Nostr vs ATProto”, but that really isn’t what I wanted to do here. While I will be comparing and contrasting them a lot, and that’s kind of even the point of writing this, I didn’t want to really pit the two against each other at all, and especially not with the title. I also want to try avoiding commenting on the differences between the communities that have formed on the protocols and their apps, although I definitely will be looking at the philosophical differences between the two a lot - also kind of the point of writing this. This also isn’t a super deep technical post, though it assumes familiarity with technical concepts. I also might come back to edit parts of it and add more later.
From ZK-first to AT Protocol — our path to DDS | Agora Citizen Network
We've been building Agora — a platform for public deliberation using Polis-style clustering — for a while now. Along the way, we've written about what we think about Nostr, AT Protocol, Polis, Community Notes, and protocol interoperability. Those posts are somewhat outdated now. This one describes w...
