Aspie96 on Nostr: So, fiatjaf, the founder of Nostr, now uses a client which randomly adds meaningless ...

So, fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6), the founder of Nostr, now uses a client which randomly adds meaningless "e" tags of type "mention" when he replies to a thread, pointing to some previous item on the thread.

The standard thing for a client to do when displaying such posts would be that of showing the referenced note as a quoted note. I don't think this is the intention.

Why do client include tags that make no sense?

See this posts for instance:

quoting nevent1q…764u

Why not?

quoting nevent1q…renl

Wrong. DID creation is generating a key and storing it on their central registry. The DNS part is just an alias like NIP-05 and has no significance.

quoting nevent1q…4ck2

Your deep dive missed the fact that they have a big central data hub that is ran by a single company that all apps hardcode and has all the network effect such that it is de facto impossible for anyone else to run another (and if someone did it would be inconsequential and useless since there would be no incentive for anyone to move).

quoting nevent1q…zfrf

It's not. Their own people say it over and over and everywhere that they cannot decentralize the "relay" because the entire architecture assumes a single source of truth for all the data, all they can do is hope people will migrate to an alternative server in case the canonical one becomes malicious. PDSes are useless and meaningless because no one talks to them except the "relay".

They also cannot decentralize the identity system. Again, they say it themselves, and their plan is to give control over it to a more neutral party -- which you can say it's a good idea or not, but it's not decentralization.