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SimpleX is based around queues. Instead of pushing everything to a relay and have it stay there forever, you push messages into a queue that eventually gets consumed by the person you’re sending the messages to. They exist on the relay temporarily and they are encrypted. Cool part is that there are no long-term “addresses” or “pubkeys” to send the message to, so spam is much harder.

I think nostr could learn a lot from this protocol, I believe we can use something like this to strengthen use cases on the nostr side. I am building a SimpleX rust library to learn the protocol further, and will be looking into how we can leverage it in our apps.

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Bogdan Zurac 2y ago

But what's wrong with having the messages stay on one (or more) relays for a long period of time? That allows you to switch devices and preserve your historical messages, right?

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PolymathicPedagogue 2y ago

From a #Nostr perspective, you're entirely in the right.

From a more #privacy and #anonymity sided position, the #SimpleX model works a lot better. Yes, you may lose your message history, but at least you have better #security.

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