The new release is here and you can read more about it. Or you can just download the app and try it out for yourself 👇
White Noise next release
Lots of fixes, polish, and a few shiney new features!
White Noise
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The chat with no phone number and no central server to shut down.
github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise
As an open-source, decentralized chat client, White Noise faces a lot of tough questions on moderation.
Won’t anonymous chat help criminals communicate?
How can you guarantee the safety of users?
What about children? Who will protect them?
This article explains why centralized moderation fails every time, and how White Noise plans to approach the topic.
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👋 Marmot is leaving the nest. We launched a foundation, and 4 interoperable clients on the same wire format. This and more in this month's recap:
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The most effective way to control what people say isn't to silence them. It's to make them wonder if someone is listening. That wondering is already enough.
X can ban you tomorrow. Instagram can wipe 10 years of your content. YouTube decides what you see.
Here on Nostr, nobody has that power. Not me. Not you. Not Elon.
5 concepts to understand why 👇
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You build an app. Then you realize someone, somewhere, could used it to change their life. That never gets old.
Such a great chat between @Max and @niftynei() 🇺🇸💸🧡 🫂
A phone number isn't an identity. It's a billing record with a SIM attached. Every time an app requires one to sign up, it's not verifying who you are. It's verifying who can be invoiced, traced, or cut off.
These are not the same thing.
The sign Nostr is winning? Users don't know they're using it. Think of Bitchat: clients finally stopped feeling like "Nostr things" and started feeling like actual apps.
Things people say in private chats every day:
— "the presentation was bad, don't tell her"
— "I don't think I can afford this month"
— "the test came back, still waiting"
— "I'm thinking of leaving him"
None of this is criminal. All of it is private.
Encryption without metadata protection is like whispering in a spotlight.
Cypherpunks fixed this. MLS (Messaging Layer Security) makes group messaging scalable and encrypted.
We took that standard and shipped it on Nostr.
Now nobody knows who's talking to who. Not even us.
Nobody reads your letters. Nobody should read your messages.
Some things are meant to stay between two people. We're building the protocol for that.
Somewhere, an app just changed its terms of service and your conversations went with it.
Digital anonymity didn't vanish overnight. It was dismantled piece by piece. Read our timeline on the controlled demolition of online privacy, from 1995 to today. 👇
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Gm. The moment you change what you say because someone might be watching, they've already won.
WhatsApp can't message Telegram. Not because it's hard. Because they don't want it to be possible. Nostr fixes this.
We shipped. Release notes here for anyone who wants to know what changed. 👇
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Some things are meant to stay between two people. We're building the app for that.
Secure group chat in your terminal. wn-tui wraps WhiteNoise (MLS + Nostr) in a full TUI: chat list, reactions, key bindings, the works.
Chat, react, manage groups, all from your terminal!
github.com/marmot-protocol/wn-tui
A lot changed in this release. Messages arrive instantly. Group chats are stable. We improved image sharing. Amber support. Keys only, no phone number.
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