Originally written by Karen, Foresight News
Originally written by Karen, Foresight News
This morning, former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted that the social products Damus and Amethyst based on the decentralized social protocol Nostr have been launched in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store respectively, and the web-side snort.social is also officially open.
In fact, in December last year, Jack Dorse also donated about 14 BTC to the social open protocol nostr, worth about $245,000 at the time. Nostr is an open decentralized social network. This is not a single website, but a network of thousands of users. These users can post to each other's relay servers, and the servers can seamlessly communicate with each other. interact.
Nostr-based Damus positions itself as "the social network you can control". According to the description on Damus official website, Damus has the following six advantages:
User control: built on the open Internet protocol nostr, no platform can ban or censor, users can control their own data and voice;
Encryption: private messaging with end-to-end encryption;
No registration required: no phone number, email or name are required to create an account;
No server required: messages are distributed through decentralized relays, without running any infrastructure and without a single point of failure;
Programmable: Allows easy integration of robots to help users automate their lives or businesses. Damus will also notify you when your server goes down.
Tips: Bitcoin and Lightning Network are supported for tipping friends' posts and stack sats.
Experience Tutorial
After downloading Damus, you can directly create an account. There are two keys on the creation page, one is the public key starting with npub, which can be shared with friends for attention, or you can set the user name yourself, and the other is the private key, which needs to be kept by yourself.
Similar to Twitter, the "+" at the bottom right of the Damus homepage is the entry for posting. Similar to most current social networks, Damus has also set up a hashtag function, and we can add a topic or a topic word after # when publishing a post. However, if you want to add a picture when posting, you can only convert the picture into a link before publishing it.
In terms of Profile settings, Damus allows you to change the avatar and background picture (via picture link), add your own website and profile information, and also supports setting the bitcoin lightning tip address, which is also a core highlight of Damus. Currently, the lightning tip payment platforms supported by Damus include Strike, Cash App, Muun, Blue Wallet, Wallet of Satoshi, Zebedee, Zeus LN, LNLink, Phoenix, Breez, Bitcoin Beach, Blixt Wallet, River.
At the bottom of the Damus home page, there are four buttons: Moments, private messages and new friend requests, Global and notifications. The Moments timeline bar can receive the dynamics of users we follow. Global can browse the dynamics of all Damus users in real time, and also supports direct search for other Username or public key address, but only supports searching for username or public key, not specific content. In addition, Damus also supports user reporting and blocking functions, which can report scam, illegal, impersonation and other accounts.
Overall, the Damus page design is simple and elegant, but many functions are somewhat rough and incomplete, such as posting does not support style editing, cannot be deleted after posting, likes or retweets cannot be undone, and pictures need to be converted into links before they can be published. In addition, Advanced requirements such as trends, filters, and content presentation by popularity are also urgently needed to be added. It is worth mentioning that Amethyst also has a group chat function, where we can make friends with similar interests, which is also conducive to the formation of a strong social network effect.
The website snort.social has the option to delete posts, but there is a bug, and it will still be displayed after refreshing after deletion. There are also user feedbacks that the downloaded Damus mobile version is in German or Spanish, and there is no option to change the language. In addition, Damus, Amethyst and the webpage snort.social can also log in with a private key address, and personal publishing dynamics will also be synchronized.
