Yes nip04 is incredibly broken and there is broad consensus that it's so, and now we've basically given up on dms. And now we are doing the same thing to threads, effectively giving up on all of nostr...
nip04 was the only (imperfect) standard that actually worked for DM, or let's call them BM (blurred message). They were deemed not private enough and replaced with standard that really never worked. It's a shame, I'd still rather use nip04 than whatsapp, or even Signal.
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