NIP-22 contains a specific restriction against using kind 1111 in reply to kind 1. It was added because the restriction makes no logical sense and serves no useful purpose, so it needed to be spelled out. Many of us argued against the restriction, at the time, but we all know that there's a NIP Repo Cabal and we aren't in it. I am done pretending like it is anything other than evidence of corruption and sloth. It should be removed from the spec. If you are using a client that honors that restriction, and you respond to anything I post, know that I have responded to you and you can't see it because your client dev is hiding it from you. I am tired of fighting the corruption and the grifting and the user entrapment. I am tired of the bullshit. I am so done with kind 1 replies. image #grownostr

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The NIPs repo should be forked and given a new name (PINs - Proposals to Improve Nostr) and new maintainers. They should follow the same process as used in the BIPs repo; in particular copying the role of the "BIP Editors"
I'm trying to follow this. So NIP-22 says that you shouldn't respond to kind 1 events with kind 1111 events, and you say that restriction is completely unnecessary and makes no sense. And then you're saying that clients that honor the restriction don't display your kind 1111 responses to other people's notes, right? But is there any self-serving motive behind not displaying 1111 responses to kind-1 events? Any unjust enrichment? I'm trying to understand the intrigue, if any.
I didn't think there was. I thought they were just being a bit lazy or overly-conservative and it made me exasperated. But I stumbled across some oddness in the kind 30023 threads, today, and now I am a bit depressed about it all.
I'm interested in these protocol politics to some extent. I've been wondering to what extent the Nostr community is willing to have, or is sophisticated enough to be capable of having, serious conversations about the protocol. There's a lot of silence when one raises questions or makes suggestions that one would expect to draw interest and generate discussion. That sort of silence combined with irrationality is usually not accidental and one does better to pay attention to it. Discussions that aren't being done in good faith are a time drain, and correctly recognizing them as such should affect one's decision how much energy to invest in talking to this community rather than another one.
I suspect though that, with the current state of Nostr, any amounts of money or power that are involved are pretty limited. Probably.
Really? In a way this might explain some things, I mean some of the distortions.
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