Our new Nostr client "Nos" is taking shape. We are starting Monday on a spike that will run until #Nostrica. The main goal is to take our best ideas from Planetary (our Secure Scuttlebutt client) and put them into a Nostr client. They include:
- Scuttlebutt's "2 hops" algorithm applied throughout the app. This restricts your view in most places to people you follow and the people they follow. This creates a safety net against spam and abuse that works similarly to social circles in the real world. Some Nostr clients, like Iris, are already doing this and its working really well.
- Our Discover screen. A nice-looking card interface for finding new people to follow. When you first start using Nostr this screen will show a curated feed from people we find interesting instead of a "global" feed. Once you have found some people to follow it will switch to showing posts from people *they* follow (2 hops).
- Basic safety features: mute, report, content warnings, and delete.
We hope this will lower the bar for non-technical people using Nostr, and bring in people who are put off by what they see in the global feed. 5 weeks isn't much time to build though. We definitely have our work cut out for us!
