An old school forum on an open protocol

About An old school forum on an open protocol

This is a community forum for people who use, build, and run things on Nostr. Whether you are taking your first steps with keys and zaps, ship relays and clien…

In the maker’s words

I'm a bit old-fashioned when it comes to online discussions. I like good, slow, asynchronous discussions. Readable and searchable archives are essential. Most communities have abandoned forums in favor of group chats. With the rise in popularity of Discord and Telegram groups, the same questions get posted over and over, and good answers get lost in a sea of chats. For this reason I created Squalk ( https://github.com/dtonon/squalk ), a classic forum built on the Nostr open protocol. https://nostr-proto.org is the pilot community, about the protocol itself. Nostr, as open protocol, offers some interesting points: * There are no classic accounts controller by a central entity; you sign in with a cryptographic keypair, and your identity and post history are portable: the same key works on every other Nostr app. * The forum is just a view over data hosted by a "relay", that is actually a ve…

Where people found it

• Hacker NewsShow HN: An old school forum on an open protocol – your identity is a keypair17 points2 comments3 days ago