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frphank | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I call this whole idea "social media for grown-ups". You can't have sophisticated, long-term discussions if stuff just scrolls off the edge of the screen. The presentation encourages LOL WTF FOO BAR!! type posts, spur of the moment outbursts of emotion and nothing else.

GitHub issues are a reasonably good example of "social media for grown-ups". That. Can you do that but decentralized.
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Vitor Pamplona | 9 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That's all fine. We can't do that in Nostr, but you can with DIDs. I don't think it solves much, but it is better than what we have today for sure. 

In Nostr, because the key is always present at the event, there is no way to disallow somebody to verify. But you can say that your key has leaked. And from that moment, no one can have any assurances if past posts were signed by the author or by an attacker. It's kinda what you do with DIDs, since people can also store the keys behind the DIDs in their own computers. 

So, in a way, with DIDs or not, people can always verify. DIDs have a way to do it in the spec. Nostr doesnt yet. But in the end, the tech stack can only go so far.