Either I am missing something or your are mixing two topics.
Pkarr is about finding where someone writes their stuff -- which can be compared to the outbox model for "following" someone.
The "global discovery" topic is an entirely different thing, which I Bluesky solves by having one big server everybody connects to and I believe Pubky plans to address in a similar way. I believe Nostr can address that through multiple different approaches.
But when I asked you exactly what you meant by "global discovery" you said "global search", so I gave you an example of what that phrase meant to me and how it wasn't a crucial feature.
But turns out you were actually talking about "global search for pubkeys and where they write their stuff to"? I am confused.
I can answer with regards to that too, in any case, and my answer is that we hardly ever need such a thing. Learning about a new pubkey always happens within some context, and the context can often provide us with enough information such that we don't need a global registry of pubkeys and their stuff.
fiatjaf /
npub180…jh6w6
2024-11-25 11:58:37
in reply to nevent1q…ujdl
Author Public Key
npub180cvv07tjdrrgpa0j7j7tmnyl2yr6yr7l8j4s3evf6u64th6gkwsyjh6w6Published at
2024-11-25 11:58:37Event JSON
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"content": "Either I am missing something or your are mixing two topics.\n\nPkarr is about finding where someone writes their stuff -- which can be compared to the outbox model for \"following\" someone.\n\nThe \"global discovery\" topic is an entirely different thing, which I Bluesky solves by having one big server everybody connects to and I believe Pubky plans to address in a similar way. I believe Nostr can address that through multiple different approaches.\n\nBut when I asked you exactly what you meant by \"global discovery\" you said \"global search\", so I gave you an example of what that phrase meant to me and how it wasn't a crucial feature.\n\nBut turns out you were actually talking about \"global search for pubkeys and where they write their stuff to\"? I am confused.\n\nI can answer with regards to that too, in any case, and my answer is that we hardly ever need such a thing. Learning about a new pubkey always happens within some context, and the context can often provide us with enough information such that we don't need a global registry of pubkeys and their stuff.",
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