#NostrNovember kicks off!

#NostrNovember isn't the thing. It's the thing that brings us to the thing. A censorship-resistant global "social" network.

#NostrNovember takes place for 30 days this month.

What is Nostr? Nostr is the most straightforward open protocol that can create a censorship-resistant global "social" network once and for all.

It doesn't rely on any trusted central server. Hence it is resilient and based on cryptographic keys and signatures, so it is tamperproof; it does not rely on P2P techniques, and therefore it works. Everybody runs a client, and it can be a native client, a web client, etc. To publish something, you write a post, sign it with your key and send it to multiple relays (servers hosted by someone else or yourself).

Nostr goes mainstream: https://t.co/5FVfqbOpzN
— fiatjaf (@fiatjaf) October 29, 2022

To get updates from other people, you ask multiple relays if they know anything about these other people. Anyone can run a relay. A relay is very simple and dumb, and it does nothing besides accepting posts from some people and forwarding them to others. Relays don't have to be trusted, and signatures are verified on the client side.

I'll be off twitter for the month of November as I will be taking part in #nostrnovember: an event where we only use #nostr for that month. Motivates us to make nostr even better! Come check it out!

iOS: @damusapp
Web: @anigmaapp, https://t.co/sCtWAvP0yG pic.twitter.com/baBQUHY1tj
— William Casarin 🇨🇦⚡️ (@jb55) October 26, 2022

#NostrNovember started today. The move is to get more and more people using nostr. But it's also a way to make it great in a short amount of time. Nostr has seen tremendous growth over the last few months, and it is only starting.

Nostr devs are building

Nostr is the simplest open protocol, but it's also a lot of fun to build on. Nostr clients are adding features all the time. Damus just got inline image loading and search upgrades, Astral added color customization and fixed a few bugs, and Anigma added a lnbits wallet last month. It's getting better all the time.

A list of nostr tools to get started:

nostr-fzf - Nostr Directory; a tool for searching usernames and channels
nostr registry - a database of known relays with their uptime and NIP support tables
nostr-launch - a tool for launching a bunch of relays and clients locally for development and testing
nos2x - nostr signer extension - a browser extension for signing events on 3rd party site without sharing your private keys with them
nostr GitHub Action - send events from GitHub Actions
wen - browser extension for website enhancer with nostr
nostrefresh - simple refresh function for nostr web pages
nashboard - nostr network statistic
anonroom - anonymous chat room inside nostr
nostril - C cli tool for creating nostr events
nostr-rs-relay-compose - a Docker compose deployment for nostr-rs-relay with SSL support based on Traefik
tostr - a twitter to nostr bot
nostr.com - a nostr web gateway for viewing events by their ID
nostrandom.netlify.app - generate publish-able Nostr event with random keys
nashboard - a Nostr network dashboard with network statistics
nostr army knife - nostr army knife by fiatjaf
joinstr - coinjoin implementation using nostr
smtp nostr gateway - a bridge that forwards emails to pubkeys as encrypted direct messages
ndxstr - nostr's layer 2 indexing nodes, with more advanced querying capability than currently supported by relays
nostrillery - a tool for running performance tests against Nostr relays
nostr-terminal - SSH-like access to your machine via web terminal, powered by Nostr.