Nostr Web Client

I'm writing a document covering common objectives to nostr right now. Send me your most convincing FUD

1. It allows ANYONE to have a voice and post freely (racists, pornographers, far right, far left, pro-LGBT, anti-LGBT, anyone sharing or promoting (so called) "fake news"/ " missinfo" / "dissinfo" / "hate speech", etc.

2. It is *too technical*. Comes with more of a learning curve than most legacy social platforms. I.e. which apps or web versions to use, handling public and private keys, how to connect a wallet, understanding what relays are and how they work, etc.

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Princedede 2y ago

I am still trying to understand the concept of relays myself Albiet i'm techy.

Dikaios1517 1y ago

At their core, relays are actually a pretty straightforward concept, it's just completely different from what we are used to.

Relays are just servers where data is stored that the apps on our devices can fetch and display for us.

It's just that we are used to there only being one server that we all connect to for a given platform, and the entity controlling the server is the same entity producing the app to fetch the data on that server. No one could imagine being able to spin up their own Facebook server, for instance.

With Nostr, there is no limit to the number of servers, and anyone who wants to can even run their own. Moreover, anyone can create apps that fetch data from those servers and display it. The servers and apps just need to be able to understand each other by all speaking the same Nostr language or protocol.