Category: nostr
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How we keep Trustroots free forever and ever and ever
As we announced last year, we’re evolving Trustroots into a new version of itself — one that’s more open, resilient, and user-empowered. This will be enabled by leveraging “nostr”, a decentralized network technology. For now, we call this version of Trustroots, “Nostroots”. Wait… what? What’s all this talk about decentralized networks 🤔? I just want…
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nostroots: first apk and progress report
tl;dr: apk at github We set up a Nostroots home page, with the most important information for normal users. For devs there’s https://github.com/trustroots/nostroots And here’s (most of) the progress report that we wrote for November 2024 till April 2025. Project updates At November’s hackathon week we decided to go for expo.dev with react native. This…
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Nostr updates
We recently held a weekend hackathon to make notes.trustroots.org even better! A lot of our work focused on making sure that the notes we display on our map are trustworthy. We want to avoid showing any spam or invalid content, so we’ve set up a system to verify that notes come from real Trustroots users.…
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Moving Trustroots onto nostr
tl;dr we want to make sure that Trustroots exists two decades from now and unlock sharing beyond hospitality: rides, bicycles, meals, parties, etc. Trustroots has already had a brush with death. The project lead stepped away without a word. Only one other person had access to most of the servers. We’ve seen similar issues with…