Can someone explain how this app works and why it’s better than Twitter? Twitter = mids, meta = mids. Is this app censorable?
Discussion
With this you can run your own relay easily, you can connect to other people’s relays easily. It’s like an ocean, and you can swim wherever you want. With Twitter, parties like turkey or China or other governments tell Elon “you need to do this” and he has to. That doesn’t work here.
Did you read the Nostr terms of service?
There aren’t any :)
Can you break down the relay situation? New to all this.
Basically a relay is someone’s computer that they make available for apps connect to and ask for the latest content. They can talk to each other to share content. You can run one yourself or use other people’s.
There are some great YouTube videos that explain more, and if you wanna go to the source and are technical you can check their GitHubs
Another way to explain by analogy is that Twitter runs one central relay that their app connects to. They control the content and who connects.
Here there are oodles of relays and no central figure in charge.
nostr:note1pqlqmuhs7qhtv0ykcsxg2g6n022xyw2c6jz2sm5mv8sv58d7r2ksh3uup7