What does nostr DMs currently use?
Discussion
NIP 17
And why would I ever willingly use your new DM instead of the existing encrypted DM? Isn't over-proliferation of encryption a much better world than only using it when necessary? I personally have never said "damn. I wish it were easier for others to read this message I'm sending to a single specific recipient". I would understand if there were serious tradeoffs to make it work, but nip 17 does everything a user expects from DMs. Some find it not private enough but no one finds it too private.
This is not a replacement for nip17, which I helped create. It's just something easier that could be more available even in clients that don't have chats.
Is nip17 hard to implement? Do you think it's worth the tradeoff with careless users using some of these chats for more private convos than they warrant?
For example, no one should have any expectation of privacy in a clash of clans clan chat, but I've said some dumb shit in there as a kid that I would be fucked if it got leaked. No one *should* say anything there that they would be worried about leaking, but the reality is, they will, and we'd be better off if everything was encrypted.
Is it not better to make an extremely easy to use library to send DMs with even a very rudimentary encryption? It shouldn't make any claims about privacy it can't back up, but the "bad" option should still be better than plaintext.