Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Nostria
Nostria, a fully peer-to-peer social protocol designed to eliminate reliance on centralised message relays - a common bottleneck in the Nostr ecosystem. Led by long-time open-source contributor Sondre Bjellås (https://github.com/sondreb/), they are currently raising a small pre-seed round to develop the minimum viable product (MVP) and expand our user base. We would love to get feedback from the HN community: - What do you think of the approach? - Are there any technical issues you can see? - Is anyone here experimenting with alternative Nostr architectures?
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Heya HN, I've been working on a reddit-like platform as my primary side project for the last few years. Doing a (very) soft launch today, mainly because I want to use it to encourage discussion of alternatives. How non.io works: 1. Free to browse, paid to interact. 2. Minimum subscription is $2 (though you can choose more). I take $1 to run the servers, everything left gets split evenly between everything you upvote that month. It's a simple model, but I hope it's a better one than the freemium model we've been relying on for the last few years. Fundamentally I feel like any ad-supported…
2023 · non.io · its alternatives →
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2013 · nightweb.net · its alternatives →
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We built Nostr Web, a new way to publish and host websites that live entirely on the Nostr network instead of centralized servers. Each website is a collection of signed, verifiable Nostr events distributed across relays—so it can’t be taken down, censored, or lost. It includes: • DNS TXT records for domain-based discovery (_nweb.domain.com) • CLI publisher tool for versioned deployments (nw-publisher) • Browser extension (nw-extension) for native browsing experience • Relay v1.3.5 support for Nostr Web event kinds Try the live demo: https://nweb.shugur.com Repos:…
Oct 2025 · nweb.shugur.com · its alternatives →
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Openvibe▲165Combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app
2024 · openvibe.social · its alternatives →
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I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →
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For the past 5 years or so I've been working on a ground-up redesign of Freenet, my peer-to-peer project from the early 2000s (now renamed Hyphanet). The new Freenet has been up and running since December along with some early applications like River[1], our decentralized group chat and Delta - a decentralized CMS. Users have already started to build their own apps on Freenet including games, and we have some interesting apps in development like Atlas, a search/recommendation engine. Architecturally, this new Freenet is a global, decentralized key-value store where keys are webassembly…
May 2026 · freenet.org · its alternatives →
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Connect.Club 2.0▲297Social network in the Metaverse for genuine human connection
2021 · connect.club · its alternatives →
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A serverless, unblockable messaging system for Android. - megamattron/SplinterNet
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Nostur▲7Be part of a social network built for the open internet
2024 · nostur.com · its alternatives →
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Mini social network that I made as my first web app project. - misa-j/social-network
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Say▲89The simplest social network with no images, no videos
2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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A social network with no POSTs. Send a message with an HTTP GET request.
Sep 2026 · gettogether.dev · its alternatives →
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peer.▲9Social media funded by users, not advertisers. No ads, no algorithmic manipulation. $2/month gets you a platform where you control your feed and your data stays private. Simple premise: make users the customers, not the product. We think people are ready to pay for authentic social networking. Live now. Try it out and let us know what you think.
2025 · peerfreund.com · its alternatives →
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