Nostr Web Client

I've just published the draft NIP to bring highly secure DM and group messaging to Nostr via the MLS protocol.

I've been studying this space for months now and after looking at a lot of different options, MLS (messaging layer security) stood out as the right way to approach solving DMs and group messages. It's highly scalable, an internet standard, and allows for graceful upgrading over time.

Done right – this NIP allows us to build extremely secure, uncensorable messaging clients that have no centralized coordinators or servers. Which is what I plan to do next. 😉

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1427

vinney...axkl 1y ago

Would personal servers (with relays running on them) solve the "less syncable" issue? That is, rather than the edge device / client having the chat transcript, an always-on personal server would have this and mediate your chats for you, hydrating your various edge devices with a single chat state

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vinney...axkl 1y ago

Perhaps optionally. Like modes for "just keep it on this device" and "keep it on this device but I'm a server and will provide it to other devices when asked".

Assume a secure connection between the personal server and all one's edge devices such that clients act more like remote controls for the "main agent" on the server.

JeffG 1y ago

Yup. This is definitely an option for syncing chat transcripts. And it would be implemented at the client/application layer.