People will happily throw away all their security for a little convenience. This has been shown time and time again.
Many of the issues are to do with scalability baked into the design of Nostr and cannot be fixed. Fundamental to it is that it wasn't designed as a decentralized p2p network but as a client-server system therefore servers (relays) are always the weak point.
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npub1rk…cy8dq
2026-10-19 05:59:29 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…uwdj
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npub1rkc386aldh9p28pfw87guc0r0rft9j2mtvpf0zdfjm4y0fm469hs6cy8dqPublished at
2026-10-19 05:59:29 UTCEvent JSON
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