in government statute books, there is always a preamble which states the aspirational result of implementing the law.

a bit like the aspirational preamble that you all have accepted as the premise of nostr.

meanwhile, the lawyers pore through those things, and with enough time, will find a way for you to break the law without breaking the law.

the same applies to nostr. what you think it is, is one thing. what it actually is, is something a bit more complicated than this uneducated faith in the preamble of a body of rules.

that's why we don't have DMs still. because y'alls don't understand what the protocol allows. same goes for name/npub mappings and namespace registration. nostr protocol is not a complete distributed system. it's lego bricks for foundational components.

you have to use your imagination and logic to see whether or not it can protect privacy adequately. most of it falls to the lowest rung of dev skill in architecture, the client devs, and idiot projects like primal promote these guys in front of us relay devs, who actually have at least one level higher knowledge of how this works.

you should be listening to us, and working with us, instead of pretending that relays aren't important.

or you can just go back to mastodon or bluesky or x and get off my lawn.