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This short guide will help you to try out nostr. The recommended way below will keep your private keys safe and let you test a twitter like client within the nostr eco-system.

  1. Go to https://getalby.com/, get an account and install the extension. The Alby app will generate your private nostr key and keep it safe.

    • Best prectice is to NEVER copy+paste your private keys, because anyone with these will own your account. This is why it's best to have a key manager like Alby to keep your private key safe.

  2. Try out using nostr over at: https://astral.ninja/

    • "Use Public key from extension"

If things work you can actually use your alby protected nostr key to log in to a multitude of nostr clients, and you'll keep your private keys secure all the way :)

There are a multitude of clients. The recommendation is that if you want to try something out that doesn't work with the Alby extension, is to either avoid it or go to a logged out session of astral.ninja and press "Generate keys" and then copy paste these into wherever. But remember to consider browser generated keys to be throwaway / leaked keys.

For fun you can copy your public key and paste it in the nostr.guru and you'll see every recorded entry from your "account" https://www.nostr.guru/

Author: npub1lgqktg83jtasayw8mpcsu46hptf8kdc4effps8mv20ymyqeewpes09l4ps

Last updated: 2023-01-01

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