Oddbean new post about login | logout So, @fiatjaf, the founder of Nostr, now uses a client which randomly adds meaningless "e" tags of type "mention" when he replies to a thread, pointing to some previous item on the thread. The standard thing for a client to do when displaying such posts would be that of showing the referenced note as a quoted note. I don't think this is the intention. Why do client include tags that make no sense? See this posts for instance: nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqqsyrugq33u5gmnzlm74k3ke974txvg2xkgfdsdz8gufxfkh4x37xvcg8764u nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqqs25gcgd4c8356tlhl2wgrefhh6s0hnzedmhcsjgz6xhp4h2mvc2ng0urenl nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqqsg3szzyxr2ckav425thg2ygelf0xhspwrcx5chwrc6yjw2wgkjfqcuu4ck2 nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqwlsccluhy6xxsr6l9a9uhhxf75g85g8a709tprjcn4e42h053vaqqsqsk3wnha6cl0x2p6x70p09pyze483509el9rup6ytjaj26kydjvqv9zfrf
nostr:nprofile1qyw8wumn8ghj76r0v3kxymmy9e3k7unpvdkx2tn5dahkcue0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcpr9mhxue69uhkxmpwwp6hyurvv4ex2mrp0yhxxmmd9uq3kamnwvaz7tmxv4jkguewdehhxarj9e3xzmny9acxjcmnqqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgs4ep8kn someone is complaining about your client here.
in bluesky they use a "root" and "reply" pair for structuring thread trees, i think in nostr there is exactly this as the third parameter of `e` tags this thing about mentions is stupid, who proposed that in the first place? at best, IMO the reply's parent (to which the "reply" marked `e` tag points should implicitly be notified and there should be no explicit need for the use of mention tags that are implicitly generated like this
It's there to allow notes to get all descendants, even if they're not roots. I'm not sure if anyone uses it though.
the use of mentions? coracle does it too it's stupid, it should be a third type, so you have root, the OP, and then you have reply, the direct parent, and then maybe you can have ancestors or something, and they should be `e` tags and yeah then you can find all of them but mentioning doesn't do nothin
the use of mentions? coracle does it too it's stupid, it should be a third type, so you have root, the OP, and then you have reply, the direct parent, and then maybe you can have ancestors or something, and they should be `e` tags and yeah then you can find all of them but mentioning doesn't do nothin
