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 The problem with #Nostr is that most of its users pursue #anonymity, which as an oldie I understand and resonate with, but... When you get acquainted with a bunch of cool people on a Bitcoin conference and add them on Nostr, a few days later you're looking at their profiles and have nothing else to think but "who the fuck is that..."

As highly #social beings we have brains designed to memorize our peers and the context of our connections with them. But this design relies on recognizing faces, names, places, events and facts. If we hide all that, how are we supposed to efficiently memorize each other?