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Vitor Pamplona | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yep, and that is good: Don't fuck up your choice of event kinds.
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frphank | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The only proper I'd is some long random number like UUID.
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Gergely Polonkai | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 yes, i’d totally prefer that over the current, (seemingly) monotone increasing number; I mean, if the biggest kind number i ever saw is 63, how should i know if someone else is already working on a NIP with a kind 64 or if i can use it in mine?
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Vitor Pamplona | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Just query all relays for the event you want: crawler.amethyst.social
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Vitor Pamplona | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is on purpose. You HAVE to know what others are doing otherwise your own apps are in danger.
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Tekkadan 🍓 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Commenting so I can share this knowledge with the plebs in future educational sessions
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frphank | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Bizarre bullshit. A correct random number generator will produce IDs that no one uses, with certainty.
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Vitor Pamplona | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Who cares? Picking a unique number is not hard.