I started thinking "how would a link shortner work on nostr / not have it as a centralized server or domain, where it can be add on all nostr clients and not rely on a service"
The first idea that came to mind is to take an event address of an original post, take the first 10 digits and last 5 plus the first and last digits of the author that posted it, and have that as the identifier, like: naddr1qvzqqqrkcgkwnw2npub18n4yszzk9r
Still link, but definitely better than:
naddr1qvzqqqrkcgpzpcy2r8zym7el900fxtgk9hcpf5scu5fd05fpsvgvqqa2dqqez4e6qp4nxvp5xqer5efs8psnzwtrxs6xgenzxdnrycnyv5unxvnyxymryerxxqcngepjxyux2df3xfjrwep3xgcnsve3xp3nqvpnv9snvwpsxyunzdfhxdsn5efexq6r2vej8qkkxd33xqkngvtzxyknsetxxcknqvfhxejnqdf4xejxydslzgaul
So users that open a URL with that on clients that support this, would trigger a search on relays for this identifier, which would then find the actual event id and load it in.
Thoughts? #asknostr #nostr
Freakoverse
npub18n…zzk9r
2025-06-04 06:23:54
Author Public Key
npub18n4ysp43ux5c98fs6h9c57qpr4p8r3j8f6e32v0vj8egzy878aqqyzzk9rPublished at
2025-06-04 06:23:54Event JSON
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"id": "34f32c8f9206399ec87a8e0d0ccfd01a1a9ba6fb01c13a9de877a6157000c0a5",
"pubkey": "3cea4806b1e1a9829d30d5cb8a78011d4271c6474eb31531ec91f28110fe3f40",
"created_at": 1749018234,
"kind": 1,
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],
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],
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"DEG Mods",
"31990:f4bf1fb5ba8be839f70c7331733e309f780822b311f63e01f9dc8abbb428f8d5:bf1987d6-b772-43c6-bce7-42b638a9ffed"
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