shutosha on Nostr: I totally get your definitions - the point is if our IDs are not mutually known - why ...

I totally get your definitions - the point is if our IDs are not mutually known - why would two of us have a private (say SimpleX) chat .. Sure two anonymous people can have a random chat - like two persons talking in a traffic jam .. or in a public garden .. that conversation is just exchange of pleasantries .. or letting each other know Sun is pretty nice and warm this morning :-) Just to rehash the point - there is no good reason for two of us to chat on Simplex :-) .. but the anonymous public chat is quite useful - to third parties who know where we are coming from ... even to random people who have no clue of our true Identities.

This is NOT to say private channels have no utility ,, they are valuable tech ..

The point is - you can either be Anonymous OR private .. you cant have both the benefits at the same time ...