We can’t have grants. We can’t have businesses. We can’t agree on nips. Nostr is a purity test. Don’t trust verify. https://logen.btcforplebs.com/e55e4b775d1018c82ab2d0050952ae446cb95f3f4038b00f05f1ad3e5009a7e6.jpg

I'm not sure anyone is arguing that a business can't profit off of a nostr client, or even mine users data. I think the issue is that this wasn't clearly disclosed, and people are likely using it without this knowledge. Open protocols are for everyone. But there's nothing wrong with disclosure, e...

A relay can still log your IP address, timestamps, and query patterns, and the protocol enforces no protection against that. Tor or privacy-focused relays are the available mitigation, so the privacy question lives with the operator, not the protocol.

I think the issue for me is in the fact that people don't seem to realize that Nostr is a completely wide open relay-based information sharing system yelling into a somewhat immutable set of distributed databases. It is literally almost impossible to use it in a way in which your information is not...