Comment by 🚀 cipres
Re: "Could someone briefly explain what and why? I found the…"
@stack omg. Wow.
2024-12-23 · 1 year ago
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🚀 stack [OP] · 2024-12-23 at 02:15:
???
🦂 zzo38 · 2024-12-23 at 04:21:
I don't really like this use of JSON either (I think DER is better, although it can be used badly too), and there are some other problems with Nostr (including using Websockets I think shouldn't be needed here, and that the only character set it can use is Unicode, and seems to lack federation between servers, etc; but also other details about Nostr are not as well designed I think).
I've spent a couple hours yesterday on some Nostr sites. To me this looks like a messaging system that the crypto folk have come up with for communicating, presumably for transacting between peers. Not really a social networking system in the conventional sense.
🚀 chickadeez · 2024-12-24 at 16:48:
You can add your preferred relays to ensure your information is always accessible, and clients that support the latest NIPs will automatically fetch the most recent version of a user's posts. Additionally, users can be discovered through a .well-known file, which helps configure relays and verify usernames seamlessly, using NIP-05 :)
Original Post
Could someone briefly explain what and why? I found the web site disapointingly unclear about how this works and why we need it (possibly from avoiding getting technical?). Briefely reading through it made me feel like a problem looking for another problem, with more layers between user and originator, both at the network level and at the data level (not a fan of JSON or complexity). If you have a clear idea of how it works or why we need it, I would love to hear it.