Twitter is dead. Long live nostr. 🤙

You're picking up on an element I think many haven't quite grasped. Nostr is using cryptographic key pairs for identity creation & management.

It's completely permissionless but it comes with zero cost to the key creator. In order to be heard amongst the noise that comes with zero cost communication, you need to demonstrate PoW.

This is more than just a Twitter replacement. This is the start of humans scaling trust in cyber space. It's really hard for me to articulate why that's important, but I feel it deep within.

We still need improvements to private key management & identity transfer but that will come.

Grateful to #[1] for shaping nostr's foundation

Grateful to the myriad of developers and designers (past, present, and future) who open the door to freedom of expression

Grateful to the nostricans everywhere who free their thoughts on nostr notes

nostr spirit wall

I’ve been so busy with nostr that I forgot to check my email for days

The #[0] Origin Story

by #[1]

December 14, 2022:

I used #[2] for the first time.

#[3] & #[4] gave me a warm welcome.

December 16, 2022:

I discovered #[5] and, naturally, asked it “can you write a joke about #nostr?”

#[7] responded:

Q: What do you call a nosy ostrich?

A: A nosTrich!

The joke wasn’t great, but you can’t blame a bot. Regardless, I loved the idea of a visual identity for nostr, and ostriches are cool birds. So I took to Midjourney and created The #Nostrich

December 17, 2022:

I created a new key pair for my purple ostrich creation and just like that, #[9] the Nostr Ostrich was born.

I set up a Twitter account as well to try and bring over more folks from the blue bird app > @Nostr_Ostrich

December 18, 2022

Only a day after The Nostrich was born, it faced the threat of censorship from Twitter with the policy change and attack on nostr promotion (which they later walked back).

Nostrich shared ostrich facts on Twitter to fly under the radar.

December 20, 2022:

#[10] proposed The Nostrich to be the official nostr mascot and logo.

#[11] tweets The Nostrich image.

#[12] was happy.

And the rest, as they say, is history.