I am truly amazed by this.
Everyone privacy minded person on NOSTR and beyond should know the existence of a webapp called Nowhere:
Install the webapp once on your phone at Hostednowhere.com
Here's why:
At some point we stopped noticing that we were asking. The account creation. The approval email. The terms of service nobody reads but everyone agrees to, which contain, somewhere in the middle, a clause that says the platform can end your access for any reason, at any time.
Stores were deplatformed. Fundraisers were frozen. Events were cancelled. Forums removed. Not because the content was illegal. Because it was inconvenient to someone with the power to remove it.
The conversation that followed was never about whether platforms had the ability to remove content. It was rarely about whether they had the right. It was about whether the specific person deserved it. We ceded the first two questions. We accepted the premise: platforms have the right to decide. That's the concession. That's what Nowhere is refusing.
When you visit a Nowhere URL, the server receives a request for the generic page builder files. These are the same for every single Nowhere site. The fragment: the part of the URL containing the site data, is never transmitted. The server has no record of which store you browsed, which petition you read, which forum you visited or even which type of Nowhere site it was. This is the HTTP specification.
When you act - placing an order, signing a petition, posting to a forum - you do so from a key generated in your browser for that single action and then discarded. No account is created. No identity is recorded. The relay holds an encrypted blob from a public key that will never appear again. There is nothing on the relays to identify you.
Site creators can go further and encrypt the URL itself. The content is accessible only to someone with the password. Even possessing the link reveals nothing about what is inside.
This is so freaking awesome!!!
Try it out yourself at hostednowhere.com or host a Nowhere webapp yourself to spread this amazing tool.
