yup
DNS sucks - Legacy CENTRALIZED naming system
nostr / naddr / note /nevents looooong string can woork over onion also
“Pablo, why are wikifreedia URLs so long?”
👉 That’s where the “decentralized” part comes in.
The long URL includes the relays where the entry was published. This looks annoying but no one said freedom must have nice URLs.
For what it’s worth, you can also use nice looking URLs to fetch articles from the author’s relays with a nicer looking URL like
https://wikifreedia.xyz/no-cold-war-(campagin)/6c2d79de2d469232
Or to see topics that live within a certain set of relays you can have the nicest looking URL
Isn’t it crazy that we can have both within the same protocol? nostr:note1xuy4hkhtm9ehjave26res326mwwg7cj9pyhl30xxp2fcrsrgg3ds4k05fg
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Fun fact: If Fiatjaf had opted to use ed2551 (i can never spell this curve name right, i apologize XD) instead of "the bitcoin thing", npubs, naddrs and alike would have *also* been capable to be used as v3 onions and i2p addresses.