Nostr

Clients

Nostros (Web)

A step-by-step guide to getting started with Nostr with the Nostros Android client.

Initial set-up

  1. Open the app, it will show you this screen:
  2. If you don't have a private key, click to generate one, it will prompt you to generate a sequence of words:
  3. If you're serious about this you must note down the words, otherwise just go forward.
  4. In the next screen, it will ask you to type all the words again, which you should do if you noted them down, but there is a "skip" button which you can click if you don't.

Following people

  1. At the beginning you're not following anyone, so the app you prompt you to go to the "Contacts" screen and paste a public key:
  2. It also works to type a NIP-05 address
  3. After following someone, you can see their profile information

The feed

  1. Now you can see the people you're following in your feed:
  2. You can find other people by looking at those with whom they're interacting
  3. The colored bars represent the relays in which each note was found