because they are too busy getting their egos stroked for solving less important, more glamorous problems
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I think they decided it should never have been created. Gossip was the only client, didn't implement DMs. Then compromised and now shows them, but you can't use them. (Gossip protocol prob never was meant to work with DMs, because DMs are DOA). Now that I'm saying this I doubly realize why I shouldn't bring it up in gossip discussions.. but I still want gossip to work with acl based public events.
as my boss said when i said "we'll get nostrudel nip-42 auth working" - no, we need to get damus and amethyst they are the biggest user base
i say chip away one at a time, don't go straight for the hard part of the structure, always find the weakest parts and the pressure eventually makes gravity itself do the work for you
i think they are wrong, without DMs it's not a social network protocol, they are just too dim to understand authentication flows and so they are trying to get everyone to ignore the elephant in the room
the majority of nostr devs don't have any real grasp on cryptography or security, and it shows in the lack of support for DMs