Nostr Web Client

We are beginning the development process for transmitting Nostr events in a peer-to-peer fashion, away from relays. This will start with Gift-wrapped DMs, Private Attachments, Private zaps, Private Text Notes, and Private Reactions; and will be the preferred transmission choice if both users are online, falling back to relays when they are not. Our Push Notification system already transmitted over 500,000 GiftWrapped Nostr events that relays will never see. With a full P2P this will get even better and will open the doors for voice and video calls directly inside Amethyst. Side-stepping relays won't be easy or quick. And I am sure we will get strong pushback from relay operators. But we will get there. And while this might start as an Amethyst feature, it will be a NIP and other clients will be able to join the privacy train.

Nostr is just starting.

Leo Wandersleb 2y ago

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Nostr is about censorship resistance and at least for me, the most challenging mode of censorship resistance is censorship resistant broadcast. Avoiding meta data leak in encrypted transmission is a different problem to solve and nostr trying to solve the former would have to compromise on that to solve the latter. Therefore I believe Gift-wrapped DMs and "full P2P" is potentially harming nostr.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

I don't understand why it would have to compromise in either way.

If you trully want censorship resistance, having an option to transfer any nostr event without relays is the way to go. Especially if the event is private.