Nostr Web Client

ok i see there's another thing now. what's pubky? #asknostr

In Pubky, you use your public key to establish your own self-sovereign DNS by placing it into the most decentralized network on the planet. (public key domains)

This allows us to obsolete relays and give people credible exit from any (formerly) walled gardens, or they can self-host.

We also apply a semantic social grapg via a social tagging mechanism that allows everyone to become the "algorithm" together using web-of-trust concepts.

Pubky is in beta and is part of a wider mission to ship a parallel free-market society via open source tech and products.

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Kate 5mo ago 💬 1

thanks for this comprehensive explanation. i understood about every second word, but it sounds impressive.

Big Bad John 5mo ago 💬 2

With less jargon: 😉

Better keys:

Your keys can be kept cold, thus more secure. That key controls a web domain on most decentralized network on Earth, so no company owns it.

Better servers:

Host your data yourself or with trusted services and switch freely, no lock-in.

Better content:

You and the people you follow create the algorithm. You control exactly what you see through filters and tagging.

In Beta now, merging open search & open social media to create an open p2p marketplace.

Kate 5mo ago 💬 1

thank you. respectfully though, i don't think you tech nerds actually know what is and isn't jargon 😂

Big Bad John 5mo ago 💬 1

I tried!

Kate 5mo ago

gold star for you ⭐

Dikaios1517 5mo ago

Questions:

If the key can be kept cold, does this mean your posts are not signed by your private key? If so, then how can posts be self-authenticating?

If your public key is effectively a permissionless DNS address that can be pointed to your own server, or to another trusted provider's server, and switched at will, is there censorship resistance via redundancy, or is data only stored on one server at a time?

I really do like the semantic social graph idea, but I think the above are two key strengths of Nostr.