What is Nostr?

Nostr is a social media protocol that anyone can use. If you have a Nostr profile, you can log in to any Nostr app, build your friends and followers, and post content — and at any time, take that profile, those followers, and that content somewhere else. There’s no central platform that owns it.

Your profile and content show up on every Nostr app by default. So when you stream on Shosho, viewers using Primal, Amethyst, Nostrudel, or Zap Stream  can find and watch your stream — without you doing anything extra.

How it works, briefly

• Your identity is a set of keys which you can generate yourself. There is no central issuer and it does not need to be linked to any email or password.
• Your content — your profile, live streams, clips, notes, comments, follows and more — are published as small structured events, signed by your private key.
• Your events are stored on relays — independent servers anyone can run. You can use any public relay for free or host your own.
• Other clients subscribe to relays to fetch events. That’s how chat, profiles, and streams get discovered.

More on Nostr

• Why Nostr matters for streaming — what makes this combination of openness + discoverability uniquely valuable for live streamers
• Public and private keys — your identity is a keypair, not an account
• Back up your private key
• Signers — Amber, Nostr Connect, pasting your private key
• Relays — where your content actually lives
• How streaming to Nostr works — kind 30311 in plain English
• Where your content lives — cross-client portability