Similar to my announcement last month about supporting Bluesky, weβre adding Nostr cross-posting to Micro.blog starting today. You can enable it under Account β Edit Sources & Cross-posting:
Nostr might have the most uncertain future among recent up-and-coming social web protocols. Iβm fascinated with the architecture because itβs so different than ActivityPub, RSS, and IndieWeb protocols. I think itβs interesting and worth tinkering with. Iβve been personally using it through Micro.blog for about a week, so why not let other folks play with it too?
Nostr is quite technical. If you donβt want to be on the edge, feel free to wait. Itβs so early that using Nostr feels like testing a prototype, letting your blog posts loose into the wild west of the internet to float between Nostr βrelayβ servers.
To get started, you will need a Nostr account. Unlike every other social network, in Nostr you donβt actually register on a specific server. Your account is just a private key, which you will paste into Micro.blog. For iOS, I suggest using Damus or Nos. For the web, check out Coracle.
These apps and others will create your private key, name, and profile photo. Make sure to save your key in a password manager. If you lose it, you lose access to your account.
Micro.blogβs support for these emerging protocols is essentially one-way, pushing your blog posts out to people on other platforms. Later we will consider federation, where posts and replies from other platforms and brought into Micro.blog, like we already do for Mastodon and ActivityPub. Iβd like to see how much traction there is before we do more.