What's the intended use case? Is it specifically for chats to the recipient or is it for things you want others to see? And if you want others to see and reply to it, why not a kind-1 note? If you dont care if others see it, it doesn't have any benefit over an encrypted DM so why would anyone specifically want it instead of an encrypted message? Currently looks like the only use case is for low key virtue signalling. What were you trying to do that made you type this up?
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Because on a kind 1 your followers will see a post that doesn't make any sense for them to see. It's not a problem that it is public, it's just noise for them.
Slightly off-topic, but why on the "Notes & Replies" section (for Amethyst and others) do we have to see the replies instead of just the root note and an indicator that your follow has replied N times in that thread? It's a weird UX to me having to click through replies without context.
It's usually because the Reply part (named conversations) on Amethyst is used to see what your follows are doing. So, everything they do show up there. If they are participating in a stream, it shows the stream and their message, for instance.
But why would you want it to be unencrypted when you can just as easily send an encrypted message
Because an encrypted message requires the recipient using a chat client, which very, very few do and most clients will never implement encryptions.
What does nostr DMs currently use?
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.