One common complaint we hear from Nostr haters is that there is no economic incentive to run relays or that the network will be centralized in a few central big relays. These claims often come from confusion or misunderstandings.

Negentropy syncing notes over meshtastic links would be cypherpunk af. fully distributed, p2p, signed application data over radio. Who needs ISPs? They are a chokepoint anyways. So many cool usecases to explore outside of microblogging.

Imagine a lora setup for a local community, syncing notes between each other without any real internet infrastructure in place.

To send a note would be simply writing it to your local database. When nodes are online at the same time they simply sync with each other or a local relay server.

You could totally build distributed, low connectivity, store and forward applications this way if nostr was used for your application data.

Any contribution is welcome! Whether you want to be a contributor, an exit or entry node runner, or just help spread the word.

I'm currently working on adding an HTTPS reverse proxy with auto-generated self-signed certificates. This will allow exit node runners to accept encrypted HTTPS connections from public entry nodes without enabling TLS in their backend services at all.

After several weeks of persistent effort, I'm excited to share Nostr Web Services (NWS).

NWS makes your web service reachable without having a publicly accessible IP address or DNS. All you need is an npub and a set of Nostr relays. A wide range of existing services could be run on NWS without requiring any significant changes. NWS achieves this by establishing a TCP connection between client and server which can be used by these applications.

Please keep in mind, that the software is in a very early state and not even released yet.