1. Pasting the wrong key is a stronger argument for proper key management than for ratchets

2. Relays (owned by users, combined with throw away npubs, Tor etc) offer the most options in terms of secrecy. This is the major blindspot in this whole discussion.

3. Generalizing NIP-104 forces me into a crappy UX design space I can't do anything novel with. It's a centralizing force that makes you end up with a Simplex-like solution anyway. "Simplex but on Relays and with your Keypair" is worse in terms of secrecy and reliance.

4. I'm not going after normies yet. Normielization is a byproduct of making Nostr absolutely awesome for the early adopters. To me, that awesomeness is found in the vast new design space Keys, Relays and Events offer. Not in the complicated extra protocols we can cram into Nostr.

5. I'm pointing out that it's worth looking at what the Telegram users (that didn't switch to Simplex) **love** using it for. Hint: it's not the ratchet UX 😉.There's a reason Telegram stepped away from that and why it's the most hated feature of Signal's UX by many. To most of those users, being able to go back in time through pictures and messages is a fantastic feature, as is the friction-less multi-device access, as are finegrained admin options and whole list of other stuff best achieved by, you guessed it, Relays.

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