arbedout on Nostr: Nostr is less interesting to me as a communications protocol per se - at that layer ...
Nostr is less interesting to me as a communications protocol per se - at that layer it's just a bunch of websocket clients and servers with novel ways of discovering each other and a shared understanding of how to encode datagrams- but the sort of de-facto "not quite petnames, not quite SSL certs, something else" identity layer that has built up on top of that is frigging nuts
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