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There's a 4th solution: a client can make itself configurable to display any kinds the user wants, warning them that if the client doesn't support the kind it will display the raw message.

Option a is the topic of discussion here and you don't even want to talk about it at all?

I think you're probably right about the ideal solutions. But I'll share a story with you so you can understand the frustration.

I'm currently developing a tool that uses nostr and torrents. I have read all the nips (which are changing very fast) and I came across nip-35. It is a torrent specification. The kind is 2003. I'm sure you're familiar with it.

It only supports v1 hashes. These are sha1 hashes. These are insecure. Of course, there's nothing preventing a user from sticking a sha256 hash in there, that's up to the client. Side point here: why is there a separate spec for a type for this that can and will simply be ignored by clients? Digression aside, this is not a very well thought out spec.

So, there's a part of the specification for "i" tags, that include website specific tags for imdb and myanimelist among others. What kind of silly shenanigans is this? A generic torrent spec for a decentralized protocol has a carve out in it's design for imdb? That's fucking silly.

Is this a generic torrent spec or a piracy specific spec? Is this a general type or designed by someone with a specific client in mind that they are building? It is very badly thought out. Looks to me like more of a "decentralized popcorntime" NIP than a torrent specification. Useful, definitely, but not suitable for general use with torrents.

So as a result of all that (and a few other considerations) I'm publishing magnet links in what I'm building as kind 1 by default. I will also code in the option to select kind 2003 so that users who want to use this kind can.

And a lot of event types and nips are like this, just badly thought out, that have been merged. I know, you don't want to artificially restrict development, you want to let this evolve how the userbase needs it to, you don't want it to be a generic transport protocol and all that. But a lot of this stuff is client specific, or not well thought out. There's going to be a lot of fragmentation, legacy support for deprecated nips, and things like that if this continues it's going to get away from you and the rest of us, just like how it is harder to build a web browser from scratch than to land a spacecraft on the moon. A little foresight would go a long way here.

this is gonna be sick

Arweave has the gateways to distribute it, which are organized by the crypto itself.

IPFS requires the user to run the pinning. And the pinners suck, because they are like regular businesses.

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Replying to Avatar cactus

Interestingly, if we believe Zach Vorhies' list of queries that Google censors [1], it censors both right-wing (rightwingnews.com, chicksontheright.com, rightsidenews.com, rightsidenews.com, yesimright.com) and left-wing queries & websites (liberalamerica.org, modernliberals.com, trueactivist.com, libertynewsnow. com); as well as both conservative (“abortion is wrong,” “abortion is murdering,” “Abortion and the Catholic Church,” “immigrant NYC shooting” in youtube) and liberal (“Pro abortionists,” “Abortion Rights Campaign Ireland,” “Rape Crisis Network,” gaybuzzer.com, judgybitch.com); both pro-Republican (ilovemyfreedom.com, donaldtrumpnews.co, trumpinsurrection. com, 34 inquiries related to “anti trump” [shooter]) and pro-democracy (democraticreview.com, advocate.com); both pro-state (patriotjournal.com, angrypatriotmovement.com, supremepatriot.com, proud-patriots.com) and anti-state (thelibertarianrepublic.com, tipsforsurvivalists.com); furthermore, exmormons (reddit.com/r/exmormon), embroidery forums (www.knittingparadise.com), a whole bunch of political events (“truck incident,” “terrorist attack,” “plane crash in russia,” “911”) and the worst conspiracy theories (“colgate on penis,” “abortion increases breast cancer,” “cancer cure” — meaning dangerous & proven-as-false self-treatments, not actual attempts to cure the cancer).

Also, the list contains a bunch of repetition. Assuming it's real, it seems that either it was sketched by regular employees/dumbest AI, or Google consciously censors farther “edgy” than political points (right or left, authoritarian or anti-authoritarian), because the masses are easier to control when they don't revolt (even for ridiculous/conspiracy reasons). That doesn't mean we need to riot over every conspiracy bullshit to oppose the state (but we do need to riot for real ones). It also doesn't mean that Google doesn't use real, serious censorship to manipulate opinions. Just Zach Vorhies lists are, perhaps, not a good proof for that.

What do you think?

[1] https://www.zachvorhies.com/blacklists/index.html

(image by nostr:npub12345kcha3wnw9afydkzku6rje98asle8rlmxadfxd4kras738l6qwph7k5; would be interested to hear the opinion of nostr:npub14slk4lshtylkrqg9z0dvng09gn58h88frvnax7uga3v0h25szj4qzjt5d6)

the real issue is the domain authority based on their opinion, and not real SEO or relevance.

not the random stuff on the lists

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This is a great way for a beginner to skip past any technical problems, and get really good privacy with open source solutions. The only work on your end is changing the passwords for the logins we give you.

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Nostr metadata is out in the open. The clients don't all have the gift wrap, only a few do. And the new gift wrap v3 isn't audited last I heard. Also without the gift wrap, there's no rotating keys, so then you might as well use Session which follows a similar model with relays and encryption as identity.