nostr onboarding

Your simple onboarding for the nostr network. Discover and experience new ways to use old internet.

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Nostr is about decentralizing services that you have become accustomed to. In our onboarding journey, we help you to explore some of them

Outstanding key facts

Nostr is an equal network built on open spec.

Censorship-resistant value-for-value publishing on nostr.

No KYC, no bouncer, nostr is open to everyone.

Use nostr in dedicated groups or globally.

True decentralisation without barriers to host a backend.

Why you need Nostr

Because your thoughts belong to you.

Big tech has taken control of the internet, dictating what you read, who you connect with, and ultimately shaping your thoughts.

Nostr aims to return the internet to the people.

Sure, taking responsibility may be less convenient, but it's worth it. Don’t willingly remain a cog in the matrix.

The Hubstr simplifies your onboarding to nostr.

Nostr use cases on the Hubstr.org

Create a nostr user
Create a nostr DNS-based address
Login an existing nostr user
View a nostr user's profile
View a nostr user's posts
View tag filtered posts
Reply to public posts
Reactions, likes, dislikes
View a complete post thread
Read posts of follows

NIP-01: Basic protocol
NIP-02: Followers
NIP-05: DNS based mapping to nostr users
NIP-10: Replies and follow-ups
NIP-19: bech32 encoding of entities
NIP-24: Extra profile metadata
NIP-25: Likes, reactions
NIP-65: Inbox and Outbox model

Nostr use cases on the roadmap

Private direct encrypted messages
Zapping users with lightning
Subject tags
Reposts and quote-posts
Use private key delegation
Public chats
User status messages
Calendar events
Communities

NIP-04 + NIP-17: Private direct encrypted messages
NIP-57: Zapping lightning sats
NIP-14: Subject tags in posts
NIP-18 + NIP-27: Reposts and quotes
NIP-26: Key, signing delegation
NIP-28: Public chats
NIP-38: User status
NIP-52: Calendars
NIP-72: Moderated Communities

Features & Specs

Nostr is a protocol created here on GitHub. There are clients like a newsreader and there are "relays" that distribute messages.

Apps

A client in Nostr is the app that posts to the protocol. Usually you post to many relays and read from many relays. Apps are something like Twitter or Instagram, but without the suck. Because the protocol is very generic, different apps still spawn with unseen use-cases. There are still so many possibilities to create new value.

Relays

Relays are the backend for Nostr. They receive messages from client apps, and they broadcast those messages to other client apps. There are public and private relays and paid and free relays. Check nostr.watch for a vast list of relays.

Payments

Nostr uses the lightning network for payments (no bank). This makes micro amounts possible and the fees are almost zero. To receive and send payments you need a Lightning Wallet. Most simple, use WalletOfSatoshi. More secure, host your own lightning server. V4V = Value for value.

Nostr identity

There's no such thing like an account on nostr, because there's no central account authority. Your identity is a secret key that you can easily make up yourself. It looks like this nsec1ex51zturtx5ns1uf2adt26lcpmez47uh9ds644a4fwcax5u5qvr3nsku2qvm (aka "nsec key") or this 6263e6e10381f74d12422445446463ec7642cb08d07d2d5426a154fbf471a1987b (aka "hex key").

We can also create a nostr account for you here.

Create a nostr identity

From the secret key we derive a public key by maths. This public key is your public "account name". It looks like this npub1ci71zturtx5ns1uf2adt26lcpmez47uh944ds6a4fwcax5u5qvr3nsku2qvm (aka "npub") or this 129382bd7381f74d12444224456463ec7642cb08d07d2d5426a154fbf471a1987b (aka "hex pub").

These keys are hard to remember, that's why there's a NIP-05 spec to map a common mail address to that public key, we call this the nostr address. Try this link to see it alive: Lookup fiatjaf@fiatjaf.com public key

You can get a nostr address at hubstr.org here or at nostrich.house here or at nostrplebs.com here . But it's also easy to set up on your own domain.

Create your address