Well, we did it! In five weeks we have ported over a lean slice of our secure scuttlebutt app Planetary to Nostr. We call it Nos (“us” in Spanish). We were able to accomplish all the goals I laid out in #[0] in just 5 short weeks.
- Scuttlebutt's "2 hops" algorithm applied throughout the app. This restricts your view in most places to a “neighborhood” of people you have an indirect relationship to, and works well for spam and abuse prevention.
- Our Discover screen, a great way to find new and interesting content.
- Basic safety features: mute and delete
I also threw in an experiment yesterday that’s let’s you browse the feed from a single relay *and* post an event to a single relay, which I haven’t seen any other GUI Nostr apps implement. I’m excited to play around with relays as a form of group/community.
It’s still very early days for Nos, and the app very much feels like an alpha. It’s missing a ton of features, most notably likes, reposts, and DMs. But we’ll be sharing TestFlight links around at #Nostrica, and publicly later on. I’m looking forward to meeting many of you this week and dreaming about the kinds of networks we can build on Nostr.
