Jack Dorsey explains his new obsession
Ben Schreckinger,
Politico,
Apr 11, 2023
This article interviews Twitter's former CEO, Jack Dorsey, who "has been spending his time on NOSTR, an open-source social media protocol launched in 2020 that has become popular with Bitcoin enthusiasts." NOSTR stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays" and while a distributed messaging system like Mastodon allows people to have one single permanent ID. Like ActivityPub, NOSTR is a protocol, not an application, and there are different applications (called 'clients') you can use on your phone or computer to access the NOSTR network. Dorsey himself uses a web-based client called Snort and has just launched a an AI-based translator for NOSTR; "Cost is 0.1 satoshi per character." I've set up an account on Snort - you can find it here. I have no 'handle' (like, say, 'Downes', because you have to buy it in satoshi, which I don't have). But if you want you can follow me on NOSTR using my public key. Strictly experimental at this point (though I expect ActivityPub to eventually adopt many of these features).
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