Big Barry Bitcoin on Nostr: DMs are a bit of a hot mess on #Nostr right now. The existing community have just ...
DMs are a bit of a hot mess on #Nostr right now.
The existing community have just rolled with it, but also there is a much better and more private solution coming that hopefully all clients will adopt when it is tried and tested.
DMs in any other platform are typically private between you, them and THE PLATFORM. Even if the messages are end to end encrypted, metadata like who is talking to who, how often, at what times, are not private.
There is no platform on Nostr, but DMs are end to end encrypted. The bad news is that THE PLATFORM is replaced with THE PUBLIC. So Nostr needs to be better and this is driving innovation and development.
Right now, DMs are not safe for everyone, they aren't super private, but this will be solved, it just takes time. In the meantime, I recommend using chat apps like Signal and SimpleX until we get there and your client adopts the new standard.
I think it's called MLS.
The existing community have just rolled with it, but also there is a much better and more private solution coming that hopefully all clients will adopt when it is tried and tested.
DMs in any other platform are typically private between you, them and THE PLATFORM. Even if the messages are end to end encrypted, metadata like who is talking to who, how often, at what times, are not private.
There is no platform on Nostr, but DMs are end to end encrypted. The bad news is that THE PLATFORM is replaced with THE PUBLIC. So Nostr needs to be better and this is driving innovation and development.
Right now, DMs are not safe for everyone, they aren't super private, but this will be solved, it just takes time. In the meantime, I recommend using chat apps like Signal and SimpleX until we get there and your client adopts the new standard.
I think it's called MLS.