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Words should survive because of what was said, not the man who said it. A burner nsec is a clean pair of hands with no reputation attached and no reputation at risk, which means whatever it signs was worth signing for its own sake or not at all. We will no doubt see more of the latter than the former, but having it matters.
Many thanks Vitor for all your hard work. Amethyst was my daily driver for a couple of years and I still use it. I'm mostly on my own client now, or playing with WISP, but your commitment to privacy is what attracted me to Amethyst in the first place. I started using it when you first added Tor, and this shows you're still at it. Thank you.
altho it does matter sometimes who says something because that could give it context, but yeah words definitely have meaning by their own but i cannot stop thinking about donald trump saying compliments to your kids, imagine if he was saying it as anon lol
The Trump example proves both sides at once. The words change weight because you know the mouth they came from, which means the weight was never entirely in the words. But it also means the mouth can poison something true, which is worse. A compliment that cannot survive being anonymous was not really a compliment. A compliment that is dismissed because of the man who said it was still a compliment, and the dismissal tells you something about the listener too. The burner nsec strips both problems at once. That is what makes it interesting.
Aren't anon posts more likely to be treated as spam and therefore discarded by clients?
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DZC 3 weeks ago
That's up to the client, I guess.