Comment by 🚀 cipres
Re: "I've been working on caracal, a nostr client with a Gemini…"
@argenkiwi Hi, sorry for the late reply. Many things missing in caracal to be a full-fledged nostr client. I wrote it as i was discovering the protocol ... I'm working on a more advanced client at the moment.
Nostr relies upon the websocket protocol to communicate with relays. My answer would be: Not "bound" to the web, but communicates with a protocol that's typically used to develop web apps ... i suppose they chose websockets because it makes it easy to establish long-lived connections with the relays. IMO a wise technical choice.
2025-02-09 · 1 year ago
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I've been working on caracal, a nostr client with a Gemini interface, really basic for now but it's usable. It can do NIP-96 file uploads via Titan. I've used a few graphical nostr clients but i wanted something lightweight that runs in the background and controllable from a gemini browser, and nostr notes are easy to render as gemtext so ... caracal maps your Gemini identity to your Nostr identity. [https link]