jb55 on Nostr: If thinking in the nostr email model, this is like saying “why doesn’t my client ...

If thinking in the nostr email model, this is like saying “why doesn’t my client autocomplete the address when I type bob@“.

Well why would it? What bob are we talking about? What email server is he on?”

A big part of what we’ve been masking in our clients is feigning decentralization via a centralized blob of relays. Thats what damus has been doing to make it friendly to users. But its a lie. There is no one global feed. If we want nostr to take off we need to change our clients and ux to stop pretending there is a constant set of relays that eveyone is on.

Damus is the worst offender here, i will start putting more effort into this front.

quoting note10d2…xnj0

75% of the time when I'm @ing someone in Amethyst, I have to go to nostr.band, search for their profile, copy their npub, then go back into Amethyst and paste it.