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
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The chat with no phone number and no central server to shut down.
github.com/marmot-protocol/whitenoise
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.
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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A lot happened in February. Here's the full story 👇
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A lock doesn’t ask for your name. It only checks the key.
A chat app should be a door, not a border crossing.
Your keys don't ask "who are you?" They ask "can you enter?"
We don't need to replace centralized platforms. We just need to build our own exit.
“Building software is hard enough. But building software that doesn't spy on users, that doesn't steal from users, that doesn't trick users, that's a next-level effort.” @Max