mewj on Nostr: Yeah, quite some progress! I’m preparing a full client dedicated to private DMs. It ...
Yeah, quite some progress! I’m preparing a full client dedicated to private DMs. It will ship originally with regular NIP-04 support, and my plan is to support a range of extensions and alternatives. There is no shortage of interesting ideas to improve DMs on Nostr, incognito DMs being pretty good. What we need now is just a client or set of clients that act as a testing ground for these ideas: bring real users to stress test the different ideas and find what works and what doesn’t.
My current thoughts on Incognito DMs/wrapped DMs is that I think the wrapped private events are a great idea that will likely be a core part of whatever the final system is, so that’s staying. But I’m not entirely sure about disposable identities/ephemeral pubkeys anymore. They are very simple conceptually, but they don’t play well with relays. Relays want real pubkeys, they want to know things are not spam. So I think the idea needs more work, but generally I’m optimistic that we can definitely find some system that both works with relays and preserves privacy.
My current thoughts on Incognito DMs/wrapped DMs is that I think the wrapped private events are a great idea that will likely be a core part of whatever the final system is, so that’s staying. But I’m not entirely sure about disposable identities/ephemeral pubkeys anymore. They are very simple conceptually, but they don’t play well with relays. Relays want real pubkeys, they want to know things are not spam. So I think the idea needs more work, but generally I’m optimistic that we can definitely find some system that both works with relays and preserves privacy.