Nostr,

We need to discuss our irrational fear of metadata.

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As soon as you have an event representing the existence of any object/noun (i.e. person, place, thing, or idea), you have an easy time addressing that object on Nostr.

And you don't even have to agree on how to describe the object (because you can use addressable events), just on how to name it (using d-tags).

I have an irrational fear of metadata, which is why in my own hobby project, e2e encrypted metadata is all nodes are allowed to send. The actual data are just meaningless, encrypted (or not, your option) blobs that anyone can request if they can guess the id.

I met a Data once. Kind fellow 👀

Why would people feel fear of adjectives pointing to concepts? Maybe they don't like anatomy. I mean, I did a course a long time ago in anatomy and it was a nightmare. However, I learned a lot about concepts (people call them objects) and adjectives (people call them functions or methods).

When you begin studying pure mathematics, concepts and adjectives become incredibly daunting (although they are beautiful)

Maybe people dislike working with concepts because analizing (decomposing) something in smaller conceptual chunks requires to solve problems and not everyone has enough diversity in their minds to solve them holistically