Luxferre on Nostr: "Junk on top of junk" is exactly what JSON on top of WebSockets on top of HTTPS is. ...
"Junk on top of junk" is exactly what JSON on top of WebSockets on top of HTTPS is. At least in terms of wasted CPU cycles and energy watts.
SMTP is just as censored as the underlying infrastructure. Run it e.g. on the Tor layer and you won't have to deal with DNS, DMARC etc. I only gave it as an example of an already established transport that everyone can build upon (and it's not the protocol's fault it has been heavily misused by big players on the clearnet). And more importantly, it's plaintext, human-readable (except MIME extensions for attachments) and can be debugged without all those fancy tools. And this example was given because, from what can be seen from outside, Nostr tries to reinvent the same functionality + mailing list servers' one. Just wrapping everything into more opaque binary layers than it should.
SMTP is just as censored as the underlying infrastructure. Run it e.g. on the Tor layer and you won't have to deal with DNS, DMARC etc. I only gave it as an example of an already established transport that everyone can build upon (and it's not the protocol's fault it has been heavily misused by big players on the clearnet). And more importantly, it's plaintext, human-readable (except MIME extensions for attachments) and can be debugged without all those fancy tools. And this example was given because, from what can be seen from outside, Nostr tries to reinvent the same functionality + mailing list servers' one. Just wrapping everything into more opaque binary layers than it should.