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Some common opinions I disagree with:

* "Everyone should have a NIP-05": Most people aren't associated with a domain and shouldn't have a NIP-05. Being associated with a domain you are not associated with is pointless.

* "The Twitter Algorithm hooks people": I don't believe the Twitter Algorithm has anything to do with why we get addited to social media. I'm addicted to nostr. It's a human instinct to keep up to date on what is happening in your social group.

* "Long posts are annoying/bad": While I think long posts benefit from subject lines or brief summaries at the top TL;DRs, I think it's up to clients to make long posts less annoying. If you want to write a book chapter as a TextNote, I think that should be fine and clients need a way to handle that (e.g. click for more).

I'm sure I have a lot more less-common opinions, but these were just now floating around in my head so I thought I'd write them down.

sommerfeld 2y ago

I've complained about your first point countless times.

If someone is not associated with a domain, their NIP-05 is pointless to me and tells me nothing (other than they maybe paid a few cents over LN once, but that's what paid relays are for).

I don't want to be that negative but a lot of those services kinda just rided the hypewave for a cash grab.

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Carlos 2y ago

Same, although I do see a quasi-benefit to NIP-05: it's easier to tell others how to add you, compared to pubkeys.