I’d love to replace URLs, yet I think they’re here to stay for some time. They also appear to be reasonably censorship resistant - while I think ICANN and their shit-domains strategy is borked - you have countries and domain TLDs not solely under a single/coalition countrie’s laws/control. It’s still centralised - and no silver bullet.
Long live:
The Pirate Bay
Wikileaks
Etc
URLs are particularly useful around services that need some centralisation - like a paywall or paid service. How can you trust a decentralised someone to collect money on your behalf and validate payment for access your service or content?
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Can you please elaborate on why something needs a URL (domain name) if a paywall is needed?
The simplest nostr-native way to have a content paywall is 'zap this note, get DM with content'. No URLs.
The simplest nostr-native way to have a paid service - 'zap this note, get 1 month of our service for the zapping pubkey'. No URLs.
I think we habitually assume that nostr needs to integrate to the web, that web is more fundamental. That is kind of true for now.
But I've come to think that if we succeed, things will flip, and web will become just one of presentation layers for nostr. And nostr pubkeys will be much more important than domain names.