Below is the latest version of Nostr links and information I maintain in the public Telegram group https://t.me/Nostrtalk, with community help, for people new to Nostr or curious about it.
NOSTR LEARNING & ONBOARDING RESOURCES
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DO NOT COPY/PASTE YOUR PRIVATE KEYS INTO ANY WEBSITE
- except when you're using throwaways
Use nos2x browser extension to handle your private keys
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Welcome nostriches from Clubhouse. https://www.clubhouse.com/club/nostr
Just to check it out for starters:
Apps/Clients:
- Apple devices:
- Damus (TestFlight full, releasing to app store soon)
- Android
- A few apps in development, not ready yet. One is https://thearcapp.com, coming soon.
- A good option for now is web https://yosup.app on Kiwi browser with nos2x extension for key mgmt/signing.
- Web:
- https://astral.ninja
- https://nostr.rocks/
- https://notes.blockcore.net/ - Blockcore Notes
- https://iris.to
- https://damus.io/ - Need an M1 chip on a Mac to use the site right now
Curated lists of Nostr Apps, Projects & Resources
https://github.com/aljazceru/awesome-nostr or https://www.nostr.net/
https://nostr.com/
https://nostr-fzf.netlify.app/ - search verified users and channels
Basic Intros
https://medium.com/@ValentinNagacevschi/nosrt-an-introduction-ab946879a727
https://usenostr.org/
https://wiki.wellorder.net/post/nostr-intro/
Get NIP-05 verified:
https://nostrplebs.com/
Dergigi's Nostr Tips & Tricks
https://gist.github.com/dergigi/1ee8dc7e3da4b6572ed785ab24bc9907
Nostr relay status (go here if you need a relay address, too)
https://nostr.watch/
Nostr network stats:
https://nostr.io/stats
Fiatjaf's tools for developing Nostr clients:
https://github.com/fiatjaf/nostr-tools#readme
Find your Twitter follows on Nostr
https://nostr.directory/
Bitcoiners on Nostr
https://bitcoinnostr.com
Search for registered users:
https://nostr-fzf.netlify.app/
Nostr image uploader (free):
https://nostr.build/
Nostr Specs (Technical stuff)
https://github.com/nostr-protocol
https://github.com/rot13maxi/key-convertr - to safely convert a hex-encoded key to a bech32-encoded key - techy but not out of control techy
Run your own relay in the cloud (free tier):
- Get a free GitHub account if you don't have one.
- Go to https://github.com/Cameri/nostream (Github repo of nostream relay dev @Cameri
Nice list! Would you add realsearch.cc? Shows trending stuff, and let's you search by keyword for posts and profiles.
Added. Nice job!
What's your trending algo? Can you add a word cloud?
Trending is stuff that got a lot of attention from good accounts in the last 48 hours. Had to prune spam first using TrustRank, otherwise there's too much garbage.
Word cloud for posts?
Yes, word cloud of spam-filtered notes on trending topics, basically a visual of "what's hot on nostr right now"
Ok I'll look into that after holidays
Added to the list:
Important security & privacy tips (2 min read!):
I can't wait for one client to become the super client and absorb all these features into one UI
For specific applications (like a Twitter type social app) it will likely happen.
The protocol is far too general for any one client to dominate all applications. I guess we're gonna find out!
Yeah I don't mean I expect to see my reddit nostr content in my twitter nostr client rendered perfectly, I mean theres a lot of general UI changes that would apply to all sort of global elements
For example a relay list and the follower lists mentioned above are definately things that can be absored into one