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Maybe you have heard of it? A lot of services are now obligated to provide means to make sure they only let grown-ups use their service, most likely done via credit card I suppose. Discord will do exactly as I just described.

For those using Discord - there is a very good alternative: a federated app called Armada.

It is federated amongst nostr user over relay server, that share nostr messages together (acronym stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays). On top of that it uses a giftwrap protocol, that means every message is not only signed by the user, but then also encrypted), for calls and screensharing Armada uses the same service as the app "signal" does - the one that famous whistleblower Snowden recommend for daily use (instead of whatsapp).

What is this nostr anyway? Signed messages in a agreed upon format (so called NIPs, with NIP-0 being mandatory, it must be signed!) Normally if you use a web service like Reddit or Google you have to make an account and give them your credentials, mail, phonenr etc. In Nostr you don't. In fact all users sign-in but they never sign-up (NIP-7), because the initial sign-up is done at home, in a so called noster-signer program (ios/android app or browser extension), not unlike digital wallets, for those familiar with cryptomoney.

Those nostr signer extensions and apps give you an asymmetric keypair (public/private key pair) that stays on your computer and every post is signed using that pair, representing your digital identity. Any Nostr relay will accept messages coming from you, when you talk with them according to nostr protocols, they don't check whether it's you, no you signed it using a nearly unbreakable process as long quantum computer are no reality, of course it's you!

Best part: It is dead-simple to join. You install a nostr signer on your phone or if you are a keyboard-warrior like me you install a browser extension. And then you can use ANY app! Music or Video, Fileservers**,** 1001 twitter clones as long as the implement the protocol you can try them out by just telling your signer, that it is ok to communicate with that URL.

What nostr signer then?

Amber is top on android (use f-droid appstore). On PC I have the Plebeian or the Soapbox signer (browser extensions that are NIP-44 capable): both excellent, stay away from nos2x (from the designer of nostr): it works too, but it is klonky. On IOS use nostash.

So you are three klicks away from trying out nostr, will you install an extension? With it you can create quickly random keypair, which you can throw away and never use again, or stick with it like me, because it is definitely the easiest way to avoid state nor corporate censor-ship and if you use apps that implement NIP-44 (encryption), then you don't make it easy to read your messages as is the case of Armada.

Join (public invitation link) the shorthand concorde community!

https://preview.redd.it/wiygicmwvyhh1.png?width=952&format=png&auto=webp&s=66d36b746dc353462a6fff71bd1c4622a9342d82

Maybe you have heard of it? A lot of services are now obligated to provide means to make sure they only let grown-ups use their service, most likely done via credit card I suppose. Discord will do exactly as I just described.

For those using Discord - there is a very good alternative: a federated app called Armada.

It is federated amongst nostr user over relay server, that share nostr messages together (acronym stands for Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays). On top of that it uses a giftwrap protocol, that means every message is not only signed by the user, but then also encrypted), for calls and screensharing Armada uses the same service as the app "signal" does - the one that famous whistleblower Snowden recommend for daily use (instead of whatsapp).

What is this nostr anyway? Signed messages in a agreed upon format (so called NIPs, with NIP-0 being mandatory, it must be signed!) Normally if you use a web service like Reddit or Google you have to make an account and give them your credentials, mail, phonenr etc. In Nostr you don't. In fact all users sign-in but they never sign-up (NIP-7), because the initial sign-up is done at home, in a so called noster-signer program (ios/android app or browser extension), not unlike digital wallets, for those familiar with cryptomoney.

Those nostr signer extensions and apps give you an asymmetric keypair (public/private key pair) that stays on your computer and every post is signed using that pair, representing your digital identity. Any Nostr relay will accept messages coming from you, when you talk with them according to nostr protocols, they don't check whether it's you, no you signed it using a nearly unbreakable process as long quantum computer are no reality, of course it's you!

Best part: It is dead-simple to join. You install a nostr signer on your phone or if you are a keyboard-warrior like me you install a browser extension. And then you can use ANY app! Music or Video, Fileservers**,** 1001 twitter clones as long as the implement the protocol you can try them out by just telling your signer, that it is ok to communicate with that URL.

What nostr signer then?

Amber is top on android (use f-droid appstore). On PC I have the Plebeian or the Soapbox signer (browser extensions that are NIP-44 capable): both excellent, stay away from nos2x (from the designer of nostr): it works too, but it is klonky. On IOS use nostash.

So you are three klicks away from trying out nostr, will you install an extension? With it you can create quickly random keypair, which you can throw away and never use again, or stick with it like me, because it is definitely the easiest way to avoid state nor corporate censor-ship and if you use apps that implement NIP-44 (encryption), then you don't make it easy to read your messages as is the case of Armada.

the armada app is packaged for several platforms:

• you can always stick with the webbrowser: http://armada.buzz
• or use App on many Platforms, but IOS,  https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/armada/-/releases

Join (public invitation link) the shorthand concorde community!

https://preview.redd.it/7xgg6y11zzhh1.png?width=952&format=png&auto=webp&s=2c571f2d26f2b3fe60b4aed3cc3620ba62f47981