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 Nostr is really good at things you want everyone to see, specially public square.

Nostr is not good at private things, like private group chat replacement or DMs. 

And that's ok. 

Focus on the things you are good at.  
 keet.io is good at Private DMs ... and its getting better.  
 Not sure, is there a way to prove that Keet does not share DMs with third parties? 
 true keet is not open source yet. holepunch is but you are correct keet is still not. its a ? if they share your data. it would be wild if they turned around and did the opposite of what they say. But its still not open. 

when that does happen, then it will be the best Private DM on the block in my opinion.  
 They did build a shitcoin 😅 
 signal did. not Keet. 

or do you mean USDt?  
 He prob means Tether 
 Very sus why they never open source it. They are related to Tether who work with the american feds 
 work with the fed is a bit of a stretch... you work with fed by paying taxes... at least the fed is paying tether on their treasuries and buying bitcoin with 10% of profits which is similar to all us plebs just working and savings in sats. 

but yet I get your point. 

time will tell. We need something p2p and out of reach from the feds.  
 no, i mean tether is infiltrated 
 Meh, better stuff out there for DMs like SimpleX and Signal 
 Signal no longer because a big security flaw was detected recently. 
 if that was your line in the sand you are doomed. 
 I'm keeping an interested eye on Keet too... 
 Nah, nostr can be good at private things too. Why not? It's a matter of putting in the work 
 it will happen though so we might as well get it right. no reason we can't implement protocols such as MLS, OTRv4, etc. 
 I've been screaming about OTR for a while, its a great patch for forward privacy on DMs, but we still have a public graph, that might be hard to get around. 
 Nostr is getting better on all fronts.  
 We can create a better end-to-end encrypted chat app on Nostr than Signal.

You might be interested in Keychat.👇

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 Agree with this for the most part. That’s why with Seer (nip29) client I’m focusing on public chat. Once I get that working well I’ll investigate private chats. 
 *not yet