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I was looking at the NIP for the kind3 following list and it says the content field should be left empty. This seems like a perfect sport for an encrypted contact list payload, no?

Is there another NIP that defines an encrypted contact list standard?

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Dikaios1517 3w ago 💬 1

Follow lists are kept as dead simple as possible, so that it can be reasonably expected for all clients to implement them.

We already have a lot of issues with follow lists getting nuked because a client can't find the user's most recent follow list, so it just generates a new one. Imagine the insanity we would have with some clients respecting encrypted payloads in the content field while other clients don't, and just dump the information whenever you follow someone new from their client...

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Student of Life 3w ago

That’s a great point, about the content field getting dumped with updates. That alone makes my solution impractical. Thanks for your insight! After hearing this I see why it would be preferable to just use NIP-51 lists.