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PABLOF7z | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 The issue is not the usage from a user perspective; the issue is that it creates a fork, between clients that support this and clients that don’t. A client that shows edits will show an entirely different thing than a client that doesn’t.

Keeping kind 1 simple is crucial which is also why we don’t support markdown, html, and all kinds of bells and whistles.

If you increase the cost of running a node few people will.

If you increase the cost of creating a client few people will.
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inpc | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Welcome to the Fediverse circa 2021…
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Big Barry Bitcoin | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 But tools like Nostr Development Kits will raise the bar from the other side.
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PABLOF7z | 5 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 You can’t depend on SDKs to abstract complexity; that’s the death of protocols because then the SDK becomes a choke point and developers using the SDK become captive, downstream, to the SDK.