Astral Ninja

Name: Astral Ninja
Rating: 3.8 (19 reviews)

By Astral Ninja

Social network built on Nostr

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3.8/5.0

19 Reviews

About Astral Ninja

Astral Ninja: A Social Network Built on Nostr

Astral Ninja is a social network application built on the Nostr protocol, designed to make decentralized social media a reality. It's a web client that allows users to interact with Nostr, an open protocol for censorship-resistant global networks created by @fiatjaf.

Key Features and Functionality

Nostr Protocol: Nostr stands for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays”. It's an open protocol that enables decentralized and censorship-resistant communication.
How Nostr Works: Users run a client (native or web-based) to publish posts. These posts are signed with a user's key and sent to multiple relays. Relays are simple and don't need to be trusted, as signatures are verified client-side.
User Experience: Astral Ninja is rated 3.4/5.0 based on 15 reviews. It's praised for its simplicity and visual appeal but noted for being slow in connecting and loading profiles.

User Reviews and Feedback

Positive Aspects: Users appreciate its simplicity, customizability, and visual design.
Criticisms: The main drawbacks noted are its slow performance and some missing features.

FAQs

What is Astral Ninja?

Astral Ninja is a web client for interacting with the Nostr protocol, focusing on decentralized social networking.

How does Astral Ninja work?

It operates by allowing users to publish and receive updates through a system of relays, ensuring a decentralized and censorship-resistant platform.

What are users saying about Astral Ninja?

Users rate it positively for its simplicity and design but criticize it for slow performance.

Is Astral Ninja easy to use?

Yes, it's generally considered user-friendly, though some users find it slow.

Can I trust the relays on Astral Ninja?

Relays don’t need to be trusted as the verification of signatures happens on the client side.

Rated 3.8/5.0

based on 19 reviews

Showing 15 of 19 Reviews

void

May 12, 2024

Astral.ninja is one of my favorite nostr clients.

The creator/author of astral.ninja is quite receptive and constantly willing to hear recommendations and critiques regarding his customer. Astral is one of the best nostr clients to customize because ...

ama

Dec 28, 2023

One of my favorite nostr clients: astral.ninja

The author/developer of astral.ninja is very responsive and always open to criticisms and suggestions about his client. Astral is highly configurable through CSS, making it one of the the nicest nostr...

toni bonossauro

Dec 19, 2023

Visual clean e elegante envia sats direto na publicação

I am an enthusiast of technology in general and communication. But what attracted me to Nostr was the proposal for decentralization and freedom of expression. It's an incredible tool, I've invested ti...

dicco77

Nov 18, 2023

My opinion

Astral was the the first client I used after playing around with the Damus Beta. I loved the way the user screen was set up with everything there in view. Setting up the client is easy as long as you ...

gevelber

Nov 12, 2023

Good overall

Personally, it is the first application I have used to use the nostr protocol. Although it is quite slow to connect and load user profiles. I think it's quite usable, although some interface improveme...

jaynoted

May 22, 2023

Astral Ninja looks good!

[b]Astral Ninja[/b] is visually one of the most [i]beautiful[/i] implementations. Very [b]intuitive[/b] and [b]clear[/b]. I myself like to use it frequently and I am sure that we will see a lot here.

tomes_is_very_cool

May 6, 2023

Simple, customable but slow, very slow.

It works fine, a lot of custom options. On the other hand it is so slow !!! I recommend it as a back up, like if another client has trouble you can still use it.

citizenredpill

May 1, 2023

A great Work in Progress

Good But could be a bit better , Astral is a little well less known than a lot of other nostr clients out there but i do like how it looks visually , on the other hand it does stutter to a halt and fr...

lunaroshi

Mar 26, 2023

Not great

I used astral.ninja on my iPhone chrome browser so I did not have the best experience it did not seem that user friendly. If you are tech savvy I’m sure you can navigate it easily. It’s quite slow in ...

bitbybit21

Mar 23, 2023

Mixed feelings

I have mixed feelings with Astral Ninja as it was my first Nostr client and it was very useful to create my npub and accessing the protocol for the first time. However, the user experience is quite po...

megajhow

Mar 15, 2023

Will continue to be a good start

[color=rgb(32, 33, 36)][highlight=rgb(248, 249, 250)]Astral ninja was a good start when we didn't have Android clients. I was only able to edit my profile on AS for the first week, but I think they wi...

spawnerdeposit

Mar 15, 2023

Astral Ninja I hope to run faster than the current one.

Using Astral Ninja I think will get faster Nostr experience. However, with a display design that is not as good as its competitors, Astral Ninja's loading screen tends to be slower. UI and UX designs...

cryptonaut

Mar 4, 2023

Good Overall

Overall it's good. The UI is a little wonky, blocky, or counterintuitive at times. That said, it has a lot of features once you figure out how to use them. I prefer Astral, but I have not yet figured ...

amaurel

Feb 27, 2023

Good for a head start with nostr

It personally is the first app i used to use the nostr protocol. Altought it is quite slow to connect to relays and load users profiles. I think it is quite usable, even though some hi interface impro...

raginjaysfan

Feb 24, 2023

a better bird app

astral is solid on the desktop but it lag a touch. i like the customizability of the UI and just how it lays everything out .11/10 would use over the bird app