Okay, new Nostriches! Yesterday I blew your mind 🀣 and showed you a music app or two that you could use your Nostr private key and sign into. Today, I'm going to show you a dedicated app for chatting in DMs, group chats, and Nostr powered chat rooms. Check out @0xchat. You can download it on Google Play and on Apple's App Store. Your Nostr app might have built in DMs, but DMs are kind of a mess on Nostr. There's an old legacy method with less privacy that major clients like Damus and Primal still use and then there's more private DMs that other clients like Amethyst, 0xchat, and others use.

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Derek Ross's avatar Derek Ross
Hey new Nostr users that have jumped on Nostr thanks to @Ian Carroll, I'd like to take a moment and blow your mind and show you the power of Nostr. You're probably using Damus or Primal right now. I want you to go and download an app called @Wavlake or @Fountain . You can get either of these on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. They're essentially Spotify but for Nostr. Once you have either one downloaded, you're going to want to "sign in" to this app with your private key or secret key from your Damus or your Primal. This is the long ugly looking string of characters that starts with NSEC. This is like your super secret password that you can never change, so you do want to keep it save and never share it. This key unlocks your identity. Now that you're signed into these apps, you can now comment on songs, boost them, share them, etc. and you'll see that activity in your Damus or Primal. Why? Because it's the same ecosystem and all of these apps work together. How fucking cool is that?
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Keychat 1 year ago
I want to confirm with you: are you aware that the default DM end-to-end encryption in 0xChat and Amethyst does not provide forward secrecy and backward secrecy? If you are aware, you should clearly state this when making recommendations.
I'm in the process of adding giftwrap support to nostrdb: so soon damus clients will be able to process and query them directly from the database which will be nice. then I could display them with a special green lock icon in their feeds or something
Amazing app. Started onboarding contractors/team members to @0xchat incentivizing via lightning ⚑️ and cash for milestones and completions of job. Great work
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