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The Damus app is powered by Nostr which uses decentralized relays to administer end-to-end encrypted messages.
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Damus, a alleged “Twitter killer” built connected a decentralized web has been approved connected the Apple App Store.
The Damus squad confirmed the support to its 11,500 Twitter followers connected Jan. 31, pursuing what it claims was astatine slightest 3 rejections from the Big Tech player.
Shortly after, Twitter co-founder and Nostr contributor Jack Dorsey shared the quality with his 6.5 cardinal followers, with the entrepreneur labeling it arsenic a “milestone” infinitesimal for unfastened root protocols:
a milestone for unfastened protocols...#nostr is present officially connected the Apple App Store with @damusapp:https://t.co/GQmvPE5nfX
— jack (@jack) January 31, 2023The app dubs itself the “social web you control” and is simply a messaging work built connected Nostr — a decentralized web enabling encrypted, end-to-end backstage messaging, among different things.
It plans to go a social media platform with uncensored content. It besides has built-in payments done the Bitcoin (BTC) layer-2 Lightning web according to a Jan. 27 station from Protos.
No servers tally the network. Instead, Nostr utilizes decentralized relays to administer messages.
Nostr developers are besides focused connected utilizing Bitcoin and the Lightning Network to forestall Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) spam attacks connected the Damus app.
The User Interface of Damus displayed connected an iPhone. Source: GithubThere person been 44 antithetic bundle developers who person contributed to the codification for the Damus web app, according to the team’s GitHub page.
Neat mode to fetch bitcoin addresses: #nostr encrypted dms. pic.twitter.com/lMlnIhf3fg
— William Casarin ⚡️ (@jb55) January 29, 2023Getting Damus connected the Apple App Store didn’t travel without issues though.
The Damus Twitter leafage posted that it had failed successful astatine slightest 3 attempts earlier yet being approved:
We replied again clarifying wherever and however each these features are implemented. That's each we tin bash astatine this time....
— Damus⚡️ (@damusapp) January 31, 2023One of Nostr’s halfway developers, William Casarin besides shared immoderate vexation connected his idiosyncratic Twitter account, stating that it would beryllium a “shame” if Apple users couldn’t usage Nostr natively.
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While the nonstop concern betwixt Dorsey and Nostr isn’t known, the billionaire entrepreneur sent implicit 14 BTC — worthy astir $250,000 astatine the clip — successful mid-December to assistance the Nostr developer team.
While the quality appeared to person accrued consciousness of the exertion amongst the Bitcoin community, different high-profile figures person tested retired the Damus app too.
Amongst those see Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, erstwhile U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden and pro-crypto U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis.
One of the chill things astir Nostr ("Notes and different worldly transmitted by relays", a caller decentralized protocol that replaces things similar Twitter and Instagram)—beyond censorship resistance—is that you aren't constricted to 280 characters.
Find maine there. pic.twitter.com/B7JUHeeSdP
At the clip of writing, the Damus web app has tally into problems. A informing connection connected the tract homepage reads:
“Damus Web is down due to the fact that determination is idiosyncratic trying to exploit browser loopholes to bargain backstage keys. I would not urge utilizing a web lawsuit astatine this time. Damus iOS is not affected.”
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