Nuh 🔻 on Nostr: see how complicated all of this is? the Outbox model is as complicated as it is and ...
see how complicated all of this is? the Outbox model is as complicated as it is and often not supported because it's complexity, exactly because it was an after thought and is in the shadow of handwavy promises of global discoverability.
I claim, that if your purpose is to find the data of a user by their key without censorship, and if you were not deluded by global discoverability, you would have arrived at something like https://pkarr.org, because you would have the privilege of thinking this from first principles.
It is only the fake promise of global discoverability that makes the existing complexity and unreliability of the Outbox model seem tolerable.
I claim, that if your purpose is to find the data of a user by their key without censorship, and if you were not deluded by global discoverability, you would have arrived at something like https://pkarr.org, because you would have the privilege of thinking this from first principles.
It is only the fake promise of global discoverability that makes the existing complexity and unreliability of the Outbox model seem tolerable.