"Rewrite for someone who isn't smarter than a 4th grader."
Nostr is a way to send messages to your friends. They are working on making it even more private by sending messages directly between you and your friend, instead of going through a middleman called a relay.
This will make it harder for other people to see your messages.
They are also working on adding voice and video calls. It might take a while to make this change, but it will be worth it.
This will be a feature for other apps too, not just Nostr. It's important to keep your messages private so that only the people you want to see them can see them.
quotingWe are beginning the development process for transmitting Nostr events in a peer-to-peer fashion, away from relays. This will start with Gift-wrapped DMs, Private Attachments, Private zaps, Private Text Notes, and Private Reactions; and will be the preferred transmission choice if both users are online, falling back to relays when they are not. Our Push Notification system already transmitted over 500,000 GiftWrapped Nostr events that relays will never see. With a full P2P this will get even better and will open the doors for voice and video calls directly inside Amethyst. Side-stepping relays won't be easy or quick. And I am sure we will get strong pushback from relay operators. But we will get there. And while this might start as an Amethyst feature, it will be a NIP and other clients will be able to join the privacy train.
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Nostr is just starting.