Oddbean new post about login | logout 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
