I’m afraid federated protocols such as email and matrix are ...

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Nah Email fixed all of these decades ago. Signal/Matrix too gives you perfectly reliable delivery reports. The problem here is that we treat direct co...

I’m afraid federated protocols such as email and matrix are designed in a way which makes distributed user accounts a subpar experience.

I vaguely remember diaspora* allowing you to replicate the same account across multiple instances, but it wasn’t great.

I think it’s easier to make nostr more reliable than to retrofit distributed ids into existing federated systems.

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