> You are not limited by client’s decisions and choices - you carry your profile anywhere you go.
You are right that you can carry your profile anywhere.
BUT
Your client choice definitely affects the way you see Nostr. It will always affect you. There is no guarantees that all clients will display things correctly.
In other words: you are ALWAYS trusting your Client app.
Yes up to client to build however they want. But as a user i should be able to interact with other Nostr users.
Relays are diff context - users can have private relays by choice. Paid relays you can still view, find common relays and engage. So using relay as analogy is not the same here.
The problem here is that core functional issue that’s preventing interoperability between clients - and it impacts users. I should not be forced to use amethyst to engage amethyst users - this is wrong.
In the long run, when another dev say Lex Luther shows up with bad intentions and implement stuff that other Nostr clients can’t interoperate - and other users can’t view, has enough money to promote globally and increase user base, pushes algo - it defeats the purpose of Nostr.
The actions here of not being interoperable and closed up client will have detrimental impact on Nostr in the long run.
