Every link you share goes through someone else's server.
Bitly, TinyURL, short.io - they see every click, every referrer, every audience pattern. They know who clicked, when, and from where. Your link infrastructure is someone else's surveillance tool.
And if you run a Start9 node, you know the problem: Tor onion addresses are 56 characters long. Unusable on a business card. Unusable in a QR code.
Sovereign Link is the next brick in the BrickOS stack. A self-hosted URL shortener built for people who run their own infrastructure.
The specs:
- Single binary, under 20 megabytes
- SQLite database, zero external dependencies
- NOSTR NIP-98 login: your NOSTR keys are your identity. No email. No password.
- Deploy on a VPS, Raspberry Pi, or Start9 node
- Click analytics without surveillance: no raw IPs stored, SHA256 daily-rotating hash
- QR code generation built in
- Built in Rust, AGPL-3.0
The interesting part is the authentication. You log in with the same NOSTR keypair you use to sign notes. NIP-98 - cryptographic proof of identity. No accounts to create. No passwords to manage. Your NOSTR identity is your identity everywhere in the BrickOS stack.
This is the pattern: every BrickOS application uses the same sovereignty primitives. NOSTR for identity. Self-hosting for data control. Open source for trust. Encryption for privacy.
Sovereign Health for your body. Sovereign Link for your infrastructure. More bricks coming.
https://brickos.io
#twentyonelife #brickos #proofofblood #sovereignty #nostr #selfhosted #opensource
Bitly, TinyURL, short.io - they see every click, every referrer, every audience pattern. They know who clicked, when, and from where. Your link infrastructure is someone else's surveillance tool.
And if you run a Start9 node, you know the problem: Tor onion addresses are 56 characters long. Unusable on a business card. Unusable in a QR code.
Sovereign Link is the next brick in the BrickOS stack. A self-hosted URL shortener built for people who run their own infrastructure.
The specs:
- Single binary, under 20 megabytes
- SQLite database, zero external dependencies
- NOSTR NIP-98 login: your NOSTR keys are your identity. No email. No password.
- Deploy on a VPS, Raspberry Pi, or Start9 node
- Click analytics without surveillance: no raw IPs stored, SHA256 daily-rotating hash
- QR code generation built in
- Built in Rust, AGPL-3.0
The interesting part is the authentication. You log in with the same NOSTR keypair you use to sign notes. NIP-98 - cryptographic proof of identity. No accounts to create. No passwords to manage. Your NOSTR identity is your identity everywhere in the BrickOS stack.
This is the pattern: every BrickOS application uses the same sovereignty primitives. NOSTR for identity. Self-hosting for data control. Open source for trust. Encryption for privacy.
Sovereign Health for your body. Sovereign Link for your infrastructure. More bricks coming.
https://brickos.io
#twentyonelife #brickos #proofofblood #sovereignty #nostr #selfhosted #opensource
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