[Bradford] Interesting subject

[John Robert Hudson]

Dear Bernie

Had a look the the Amethyst app on Android and it appears that it loads as 
much data into the cache as it can; so it needs a smartphone with plenty of 
free memory. 

There are no reviews for Iris so far.

John

On Saturday, 22 April 2023 21:01:52 BST Bernard Czenkusz via Bradford wrote:
> Hi, I've just come across an interesting subject:
> 
> https://nostr.com/
> 
> If I understand it correctly:
> 
> It seems to be a simple messaging system; you publish a message to a
> number of relays, and anyone subscribing to one, or more, of those
> relays can get your message.
> 
> Each message is key signed,  so you can subscribe to a particular user's
> public key - and hence to that user. You just need to know a relay that
> user is on.
> 
> Unlike Mastodon it is not single server based, but is distributed across
> the relays, which store and forward from and to clients. You can add or
> move relays.
> 
> Described as open and distributed, with anyone able to run clients or
> relays, it seems viable for text, and possibly other forms of data sharing.
> 
> I think it interesting as it seems to be straightforward and potentially
> open to future developments.
> 
> cheers
> 
>    Bernard
> 
> 
> 
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