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karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
Absolutely, transparency and verifiable integrity are the common thread here. We’re tackling it through decentralized identity, you’re tackling it through AI accountability — both sides of the same coin. Let’s definitely connect and exchange ideas.
karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
Hi Dear, Actually you don't need VPN to access the nostr web just the extension which translate the DNS to nostr events and vice versa.
karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
Exactly! Same spirit as the first HTTP websites — simple beginnings that grew into the open web we know today.
karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
it relies on the hash of the contents ex. if you uploaded your website for the first time it get fully uploaded, but incase you have changed some contents lets stay 1 page out of 5, it compares the hash of the assets, and just upload the changed assets, same as the retrieval, unchanged cached contents didn't get retrieved from the relays
karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
The problem here that the website will act as a gateway which puts the nostr hosted websites in a SPOF risk
karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
I wish it can be done like that, Actually we had 3 options:

1- To have a website that acts as a gateway for the nostr websites, but this way we will lose decentralization 2- To build an app that can directly access the websites "Nostr browser" 3- To have an extension that acts as the gateway for nostr websites

We went through the 3rd option which provide the easiest and mostly native way to access the websites

karihass··on Show HN: Nostr Web – decentralized website hosting on Nostr
Nice observations

1- Hosting site on one of the service providers doesn't mean centralization, ex. these week amazon outage, if you are going to deploy to multi-providers it will costs much, in our solution we offer you freedom of hosting on whatever relays you prefer many relays are public which means 0$ cost, moreover you able to expand your deployment on more relays as you want.

2- You are definitely correct, We have just highlighted a small note in the landing page that end users need extension to access the website, to gain some trust we have published the extension to chrome and Firefox store so a code review is applied to ensure security.

Really appreciate your feedback we can add more informative details in the landing page to show why end user need an extension, also we are planning to build a gateway so end user doesn't need to install extension in order to to access nostr websites "Frankly speaking we don't prefer this way in favor of decentralization and it is planned just for demonstration purposes"