Avatars & media
Your avatar, hosted so it never breaks. Free today; more media with your relay.
Upload an avatarRelay monitor
A public directory of relays. Owners get downtime emails, free for up to 10.
Open the directoryRun a relay? Public relays are listed and checked here.
Downtime emails, free for up to 10 relays.
Things get lost on Nostr. Your copy doesn't.
A relay wipes its data, an image host closes, an app resets your follows. With a backed-up copy of your own, you can get it back.
A relay wipes its data
Years of notes vanish from the place your app looked first.
0 eventsdatabase reset
Your image host closes
Every picture you posted there turns into a broken box.
Maya Lindqvist
maya@anchorman.lol · 2h
Out on the water before the show.
404host closed
An app resets your follows
The people you follow, gone after an update or a new phone.
0 followslist is empty
Your decentralized, centralized identity.
Decentralized because the keys and the data are yours. Centralized because one name, one address, always finds them.
maya@anchorman.lol
- key
- 7f3a…c91e
- relay
- relay.anchorman.lol
One name
One address that finds your key and your notes.
Places you choose
Your relay in a region you pick, a second copy elsewhere, or your own server.
Always yours
Your key never leaves your app. Take everything whenever you move.
Start with the name. It is free.
Name and avatar are live today. Your own relay opens soon; copies in more places come later.
What is live, what opens next, what comes later
Your name and avatar are ready now. Your own relay is the next thing we are building, with more ways to keep your notes close after that.
- kofi.anchorman.lolReservedQueued
- ines.anchorman.lolCopying old notesSetting up
- tomas.anchorman.lol1,103 notes keptLive
- maya.anchorman.lol1,240 notes keptLive
Your relay, set up for you
Reserve now, no payment. We set the relay up and copy your old notes in from the relays you have used.
Everything you post, kept — in places you choose
Your notes, your media, your name. One copy with us, a second one wherever you point it, and an export any time you want to leave.
Keys stay with you
Signing in approves one request in your own Nostr app. We never see your key and never post for you.
Our own relay software
Open source, with media storage built in, so you can run the same thing yourself if you ever want to.
Live now
- Free names (you@anchorman.lol)
- Avatar hosting
- Relay downtime alerts
Opening next
- Your own relay, notes copied in
- Media storage
- Nightly backups and export
- Your name on your own domain
Later
- A second copy in another region
- Open-source relay software
- Plans for companies and teams
Fair questions
What people ask before they trust a host with their notes.
We're setting up the first relays now. Reserving costs nothing and commits you to nothing: you're on the first list, we'll write to you before anyone else with the date and the price, and you decide then. Free names and avatars already work.
Start with your name. Keep everything after.
Free today. Your own relay is next.
A name with a checkmark
you@anchorman.lol, verified in Primal, Damus and Amethyst.
Your avatar, hosted
One address that works everywhere your profile shows up.
A place in line
Reserve your own relay with no payment. We write before it opens.
We never ask for your private key.