For regular users coming from platforms like X or Instagram, it's hard to grasp. It's difficult to explain why there are two different event kinds, why kind 20 doesn't show up on some clients, why it's placed in a separate tab on others, or even why notes posted in different feeds are considered different kinds of event
The reason there hasn't been much discussion about the issues with kind 20, in my opinion, is simply because its popularity has decreased. I quickly browsed through some big relays' kind 20 notes, and they are pretty scarce, with most of them looking like content posted by bots.
cody / Cody Tseng
npub1sy…wf6wl
2025-05-06 01:56:45
in reply to nevent1q…zf75
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npub1syjmjy0dp62dhccq3g97fr87tngvpvzey08llyt6ul58m2zqpzps9wf6wlPublished at
2025-05-06 01:56:45Event JSON
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