using a centralized registry web service is a cop-out, but there's not really an obvious solution either
DHT and blockchain are basically the opposite extremes in this case, blockchain can provide a bad user experience because it can never forget (no way to delete private information), DHT can provide a bad user experience because it's potentially lossy (same frustrations as say, IPFS)
nostr takes the "roll with the chaos" approach by not having any kind of guaranteed global identifiers, which is, another kind of compromise
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npub1p2…crnl6
2024-12-02 10:31:44
in reply to nevent1q…tvkc
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2024-12-02 10:31:44Event JSON
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