Greetings! I'm here to tell you about Nostr, a decentralized and censorship resistant social communication protocol that has recently added protocol level support for Moderated Communities. Developers are actively building this on Nostr and would love your help and support. Let us know what you want

Greetings! I'm here to tell you about Nostr, a decentralized and censorship resistant social communication protocol that has recently added protocol level support for Moderated Communities. Developers are actively building this on Nostr and would love your help and support. Let us know what you want Greetings, Reddit. Let me give you a quick and abridged history of Nostr. Nostr was started about two years ago, but was only used by a handful of people until December 2022 when Jack Dorsey started talking about it on Twitter. Since then, Jack has donated over 5M dollars for Nostr development, uses Nostr every day, and is one of our active and supportive users on the protocol. You may have also seen Edward Snowden talking about Nostr or you may have seen Apple fighting one of our client developers. Nostr is a protocol, not a platform. It's permission-less, it's open, and anyone is allowed to build or use the protocol in whatever way they see fit. Users can run their own servers, or nodes, we call them relays. Users can use one of the open source clients on their respective app stores, use ones located on the web, run desktop clients, or even run their own web browser based clients locally on their own network. It's truly beautiful. You can build anything upon Nostr such as Twitter replacements, Medium replacements, Evernote replacements, etc. I use these every day and it's fantastic. Since nostr is a protocol, you cannot get rugged by a server admin. If your client or relay disappears, you just move on to the next one or run your own and all of your content and your contacts live on. **This is very different from any fediverse alternative.** Nostr is also powering the value for value economy, with something called Zaps. Zaps are tiny pieces of bitcoin sent to content creators for their notes, posts, GIFs, memes, videos, etc. You can literally get paid to shitpost. It's beautiful. Likes are hollow and don't mean anything. Likes have absolutely zero value. By using bitcoin, we're able to give real feedback and real value to those that created content for us. It's the perfect value exchange for a decentralized and open network. In this regard, bitcoin and nostr go hand in hand as the ethos of both align with one another quite well. If you don't like bitcoin, then that's okay! You do not have to use it. Some clients don't support Zaps and that's fine! Now, what does this have to do with Reddit and how is this a Reddit Alternative? Last month as Reddit began to experience the Spez Shitshow, Nostr developers started draft support for Moderated communities. This can be found at NIP-172 on GitHub where you can contribute or comment on the development process. Thus far, we have 3 Nostr clients that are in early stages of implementing Moderated Communities. They're all very early stages and need a lot of work, but this shouldn't scare you away. Nostr is all about community and building. The devs that build on Nostr are super hereos, pushing out client updates, new clients, and micro services every single day. If you want to help build these clients you contribute, give feedback, or you can just use them. We want to build this for not only all of the existing nostr users, but we want to build this for all of you. You can help us mold this into the tools that you want and always dreamed to have. ​ [https://satellite.earth](https://satellite.earth) [https://zapddit.com](https://zapddit.com) [https://nostr.kiwi](https://nostr.kiwi) Amethyst will be adding community support in a few days. ​ Here are just a few Nostr clients: Android: Amethyst, Plebstr iOS: Amethyst, Plebstr Web: [https://snort.social](https://snort.social), [https://primal.net](https://primal.net), [https://coracle.social](https://coracle.social), [https://iris.to](https://iris.to) ​ Check out [https://nostrapps.com](https://nostrapps.com) for a list of additional nostr apps, clients, and microservices. ​