What is Nos try? How is it different?
Nos try is another stab at a decentralized social network after Mastodon. But unlike Mastodon where user identities are attached to servers and servers have a degree of control over registered users, Nos try is a lot more open in that regard. There are two components at play on Nos tr: clients and relays. Each user runs a client, while anyone can run a relay. Clients can publish data (i.e. create posts) on any number of relays and fetch data from other relays. Each user is assigned a public key. When a user follows someone, the user’s client fetches posts associated with that someone’s public key from the associated relay. This process is repeated on start-up, with the client querying data from all relays it knows for all users it follows. The fetched data is then displayed to the user chronologically to make up a feed. It sounds complicated, but such an implementation solves several flaws that other platforms suffer from. On Mastodon, when a server shuts down, your data and account are completely deleted. However, on Nos try, since users are identifiable by public keys and are not tied to relays (servers) if a relay shuts down or gets deleted, they can always move to another relay. Another benefit of such an implementation is that it’s very “censorship-resistant,” as Nos try likes to put it. If a user gets banned from a relay, They can publish posts to another.
How does it compare to Twitter?
In many ways, Nos try sets out to solve the same Twitter problems that Mastodon did, such as ads, spam, and an addictive algorithm. However, in addition to that, Nos try also goes big on the principles of “free speech,” despite not mentioning the term in its documentation a single time. It’s virtually impossible to boot a person off the platform completely unless all relays ban them. However, as Nos try documentation reads, “there will always be some Russian server willing to take your money in exchange for serving your posts.”
Here is how to sign up,
Nos try isn’t an app or even a “platform,” so you’ll need to use apps that are built on top of it. One of these, named Damps, has a beta release on the Apple App Store. If you’ve got an iPhone/iPad, you can proceed with the following steps to use the app:
1. Generate a public and private key using Damps or a Nos try client like an astral. Ninja.
2. Save the private key somewhere safe and keep it secret.
3. Create multiple keys if needed. Those keys can be used across all Nos try clients.
4. From the Nos try client you are using, you should be able to update your profile details such as name, profile picture, etc.
5. You are good to go. Use the client to make posts and find users to follow.
You can also use Nos to try on the web through websites like a coracle. Social and an astral. Ninja.
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