Nuh 🔻 on Nostr: Links should just work. Links with public keys as domains should also just work. This ...
Links should just work. Links with public keys as domains should also just work.
This is apparently controversial, but "whoever show you the link should also help you to find it" defeats the purpose of Links. Links should have exactly ONE way to resolve, and that one way should be socially scalable, meaning it should work regardless of who is sharing it with you or when.
There should be only one variable; either the link is still functional or broken, and it is only broken when the author of it abandons it.
Nostr started as a critique of p2p never working, but it has just as much appetite for chaos and unpredictablity as p2p networks. That is fine and necessary for the social feed usecase, it is absolutely not acceptable nor necessary for resolving URLs, something the web already does perfectly well, and we know how to do it just as well while removing the ICANN dependcy.
This is apparently controversial, but "whoever show you the link should also help you to find it" defeats the purpose of Links. Links should have exactly ONE way to resolve, and that one way should be socially scalable, meaning it should work regardless of who is sharing it with you or when.
There should be only one variable; either the link is still functional or broken, and it is only broken when the author of it abandons it.
Nostr started as a critique of p2p never working, but it has just as much appetite for chaos and unpredictablity as p2p networks. That is fine and necessary for the social feed usecase, it is absolutely not acceptable nor necessary for resolving URLs, something the web already does perfectly well, and we know how to do it just as well while removing the ICANN dependcy.
quoting note16u8…aqxz> My point has always been there is no reason to do this contextual lookups when we could have the no-context lookups.
Bingo! That is what makes the web work. Few know this but the "U" in URL orginally stood for "Universal". You can of course use URLs without DNS, and DNS is just one option with a large network effect.