lurkingcat on Nostr: Food for thought ... #[0]

Food for thought ...

quoting nevent1q…g35w

I feel like perhaps we’re being quick to try and decentralise everything and store all config, data or state in published Nostr events by default 😟

The cross app support Nostr enables is awesome - but it comes with an insane privacy cost. Worse than todays social networks. Are we building something worse?

A public following list is fine. But I want a private one too. I want private lists. I want private block lists or mutes. I want private bookmarks. I want private connected relays. And so on.

The current client app approach is basically ‘give the government a direct event feed for everything you do or have, in a nice standardise format for them to process’.

We really need to rethink the public first mindset in Nostr clients. Most data can be synced using iCloud or something that’s not public - and made public by choice by the user as needed. You can even store the data as Nostr events locally without publishing if you like that format.

Let’s not build a privacy nightmare..