‘Twitter Killer’ Damus Backed by Jack Dorsey Live in Apple Store

Damus, a self-proclaimed “Twitter killer” built on a decentralized network and funded by none other than Jack Dorsey, was authorized today on the Apple App Store.

On Jan. 31, the Damus team verified the approval to its 11,500 Twitter followers, claiming at least three denials from the Big Tech player.

Soon after, Twitter co-founder and Nostr contributor Jack Dorsey announced the news to his 6.5 million large Twitter following, calling it a “milestone” moment for open-source protocols.

The app bills itself as the “social network you own,” and it is a messaging service based on Nostr, a decentralized network that, among other things, enables encrypted end-to-end private communications.

It intends to become an unfiltered social media platform. According to a Jan. 27 article from Protos, it also supports built-in payments via the Bitcoin layer-2 Lightning Network.

The network is not run by any servers. Instead, Nostr distributes communications through decentralized relays.

Nostr engineers are also working to avoid distributed denial-of-service spam assaults on the Damus app by utilizing Bitcoin and the Lightning Network.

Despite heavy testing of the App by high profile people in the world of crypto and free speech, including Edward Snowden, the app has ran into some issues at press time. Current CEO of Twitter, Elon Musk, has not commented yet on the launch of Damus.