Is Nostr Ded, Yet?

By Laeserin February 12, 2026
We would like to say that: Reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.
Is Nostr Ded, Yet?

You okay, bro?

It’s sort of funny, how my feed is full of people whining that Nostr is Ded 🪦, while the rest of us are off in our little project, quietly turning Nostr into a document database, and feeling quite chipper.

Because this is it. And it is finally happening

That’s actually what Nostr is best at: it seamlessly integrates what people are reading and writing with their conversations about it and interactions on it. The documents and the reviews about the document and the highlights on the document and the citations at the document and the references to the document and the media and objects referenced in the document and the ratings of the document… all in one big lump of standardized events. Events that can be reshuffled, rerendered, reordered, refiltered, reanalyzed, replaced, reviewed, re-… you get the idea.

It’s not enough to chat. You need stuff to chat about. You need to be able to share documents — news, calendar events, bug reports, product descriptions, wiki pages, academic journals, magazine and blog articles, books, recipes, photo albums — and then chat about that.

The database of living documents

You can now read all of this on:

  • Your PC
  • Your cellphone or tablet
  • Your e-paper reader

Nostr has decoupled the format and the transmission from the content

You can download the document along with everything that touches it and is related to it, in one stream or file. You can archive it all and keep a history of any changes. You can send packages of it to people over SMS, Telegram, GoogleDocs, Signal, Meshtastic, Bluetooth, USB cables, e-mail, fax machines, radio signals, carrier pigeons… and even over relays.

And then someone came along, who didn’t know it couldn’t be done, and did it.

The reason you haven’t had this, until now, is because the vision was so grand, and the mountain of work required to implement it so huge, and the amount of technical and logical expertise so high, that it sounded insane. Like, LOl, nah, never gonna happen.

You had to wait for a bunch of crazy people to come along and simply build it, on their own time and at their own cost. For years.

GM, Nostr. I heard you were ded.

Silberengel
Feb 10, 2026 13:04

We at @GitCitadel have now imported half of Project Gutenberg to our #Orly 🦉 relay (actively developed and supported by @mleku).

You can see my branch on: https://git.imwald.eu/silberengel/next.orly.dev

The second-half import will start tonight (it’s a lot!). Then we start importing Wikipedia, in the various languages offered. We’ll look for more data sources, after that. Will be millions of mid-sized events, once we’re done. If you want to be an #Alexandria Library mirror, you might need to pimp your hardware, but you won’t have to increase your event size-limits.

Our relay admin @cloud fodder and 121 others is going to host our first full mirror on wss://theforest.nostr1.com and you can then arrange streams, or whatever, with him. Our subscribers are making this good work possible! 🫶🏻

All of the items are in the public domain (no copyright) or are copyleft (we include a source tag and a clear notice that the source tag has to be maintained in a clone or fork). We will be regularly scanning the original sources for changes and updating the events. Once you have the basic set, you can just sync the updates. Also feel free to maintain a set of event forks, or to archive changes.

Our biggest challenge is now making the books easily discoverable, from any client that can render 30040 events, by juicing up relay searches with some high-tech engineering magic voodoo stuff. @semisol and @MichaelJ are both actively working on getting that going. ♥ Both of their systems are getting major updates. Expect cool stuff to get cool even harder.

🫡 That’s all for now, and GM.

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#nostr #alexandria #ebook
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