Of course, on nip04 I can also reference all other nostr resources in a decentralized way, without picking a client.
Problems are:
* Identity: We need to make it easy to find the right fiatjaf on that other chat app
* Privacy: Many chat apps require phone number
* Inertia: nip04 is expected to be a way to chat with people, so people default to it. You would have to run a reply-bot to push people to whatever other channel you prefer and you have to get all clients on board to retire nip04. I know you try but it's impossible. Even you as our CEO can't do that.
* Integration: I can beautifully mention nostr:npub1504jj42t6flu5l6n7e389e9mt8gxduhnzuyv7dq4gr95w20mmpqscx0cg0 in nip04 but not on Telegram
I think we would need first a plan and then a shame campaign to kill nip04 but I don't see what that plan could look like. It would have to be something better than nip04 and quite frankly I don't see Telegram and Signal as better. By knowing that who chats with whom when being public knowledge, people don't fall for the illusion of this being private as they do with TG and Signal, while there it's just some privileged people that still know all that meta data.
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