nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyehwumn8ghj7mnhvvh8qunfd4skctnwv46z7ctewe4xcetfd3khsvrpdsmk5vnsw96rydr3v4jrz73hvyu8xqpqsg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q8dzj6n showed me nostr recently. Reminds me of a writeup I did back in 2021 on decentralized social media:
https://rossulbricht.medium.com/decentralize-social-media-cc47dcfd4f99
I'll be mirroring my X account here and hopefully finding some good conversations.
Now compare this to the original nostr description of nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhkcmmrdd3x77pwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0qydhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnhv4ehgetjde38gcewvdhk6tc4rdlnm from November 9, 2020:
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr/commit/bdeb03aeaf2d44db954e0eb1356a3f585ee7c50d
“therefore it has weird and unnecessary quirks like signing a JSON string which must strictly follow the rules of ECMA-262 6th Edition”
It's hilarious how many things the original nostr readme was clearly wrong about. Round-tripping is such an obvious problem to anyone who has ever worked on crypto codebases, and it has caused lots of problems for nostr implementations.
Interesting, I did a quick read on it and will read it again later. Perhaps there are some good ideas I can adopt in Nostria.
