dtonon on Nostr: ...

quoting nevent1q…l3ag

As fiatjaf (nprofile…7nd4) pointed out some time ago, Airbnb and Amazon URLs are worse. They have only one little advantage, they are more resilient, since a random truncation usually doesn't break the full visualization.

I know that our URL are not pretty and highly usable, but if we want to pursuit a real decentralization we have to embrace trade-offs.
The URL is long because it contains useful and necessary data.

If we add a shortening feature to njump and tomorrow it goes down or is somehow captured, every link would become useless.

A shortening service powered by Nostr is possible, it already exist, but it adds complexity and some centralization weakness, and makes accessing the content more fragile.

The only pseudo-solution I can think of is adding a fallback to the entity parsers, so if the entity misses some chars at the end, we can however extract the note1/npub1, maybe with one or two relays. I think it should be possible with bech32.