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Nuh · 2w
Nah Email fixed all of these decades ago. Signal/Matrix too gives you perfectly reliable delivery reports. The problem here is that we treat direct conversations as something that should be publicly o...
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I’m afraid federated protocols such as email and matrix are designed in a way which makes distributed user accounts a subpar experience.

I vaguely remember diaspora* allowing you to replicate the same account across multiple instances, but it wasn’t great.

I think it’s easier to make nostr more reliable than to retrofit distributed ids into existing federated systems.
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Nuh · 2w
Sure, but Nostr also doesn't have the best decentralised ID. Nostr is quite hard to change though, go try to convince Nostr folks that HTTP is quite good actually and websocket is bad default.