Decentralized Twitter 'Killer' Nostr Launched on Apple Store
In December 2022, Dorsey made a case for a de central ized alternative to Twitter . The former executive of the social media platform underlined Twitter ’s censorship issues and then went on to talk about the importance of a “free and open protocol” for social media. A couple of days later, Dorsey donated around 14 BTC, worth about $245k at that time, to enhance the development of Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays). The application is an open protocol that intends to create an anti-censorship global social network. The protocol does not depend on a trusted central server. In the contrast, all its users run a client. Users publish content by writing a post and signing it with their private key. On the other hand, to share content or distribute messages, relays are used. In a victory for Decentralization enthusiasts, the aforementioned social networking protocol went live on Apple’s app store. Jack Dorsey ’s involvemen...