White Noise 12 hours ago

White Noise v2026.5.22 is out. iOS push notifications are live. The Notification Service Extension decrypts the payload on your device, so Apple sees a delivery but not the message, the sender, or your identity. Messages now render markdown. There's a blocked users screen in Settings, deep links for chats and profiles, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese support. View article →

White Noise 3 days ago

Most apps want your email and your phone. Then, a code sent to the number they just made you give them. White Noise wants two taps. An identity that's only yours and works across all Nostr clients, not just here. It’s not magic, it’s maths. 👇 View article →

White Noise 6 days ago

Telescreen --> smartphone. Thought Police --> big data. Room 101 --> echo chamber. Ministry of Truth --> post-truth. 14 parallels between Nineteen Eighty-Four and surveillance in 2026. View article →

White Noise 2 weeks ago

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 2 weeks ago

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. View article →

White Noise 3 weeks ago

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.

White Noise 3 weeks ago

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 👇 View article →

White Noise 0 months ago

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() 🇺🇸💸🧡 🫂

White Noise 1 month ago

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.

White Noise 1 month ago

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.

White Noise 1 month ago

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.

White Noise 1 month ago

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.

White Noise 1 month ago

Nobody reads your letters. Nobody should read your messages.

White Noise 1 month ago

Some things are meant to stay between two people. We're building the protocol for that.

White Noise 1 month ago

Somewhere, an app just changed its terms of service and your conversations went with it.

White Noise 1 month ago

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. 👇 View article →

White Noise 1 month ago

Every great idea was born in a private room.

White Noise 1 month ago

Gm. The moment you change what you say because someone might be watching, they've already won.

White Noise 1 month ago

WhatsApp can't message Telegram. Not because it's hard. Because they don't want it to be possible. Nostr fixes this.

White Noise 1 month ago

Get ready, Marmots! Tomorrow is the big day. MARMOT COMMUNITY CALL We will discuss: • This month's key progress • The current state of the White Noise app • Future plans for the protocol • Q&A from the community 📅 Tuesday, April 7, 16:00 UTC. Join us here: https://meet.fulmo.org/marmot