57 sats \ 7 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 10 May 2023 \ parent \ on: Ephemeral, anonymous chat via QR codes over nostr nostr
Agreed. Better to not go down too far down the path. Terrible foundation for chat, espeically if something is intended to be "anonymous"
I like the ease of use because it's just a key pair.
I don't know of any other service where you can simply generate a key pair and then send encrypted DMs to another key pair (which could also be generated on demand which I don't do here, to be fair).
Isn't that as anonymous as it can be on clearnet?
Or are you concerned because of the current state of NIP-04?
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ease of use
Like PGP? And some things are complicated for a reason. Simple doesn't mean you should use it.
concerned because of the current state of NIP-04
That's putting it lightly.
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No, PGP is hard to use right. (edit: Talking about usage over SMTP here)
I think you are talking more generally about using nostr for anonymous chats.
Generally, I agree. Nostr is bad to stay anonymous.
However, I don't see how ephemeral key pairs as used here are not anonymous.
I am talking about this specific use case where a random person just wants to contact you to exchange a few messages and then the key will never be used again.
Maybe I should be more clear:
It's about the anonymity of the sender, I don't generate a new key pair for the recipient side (yet).
So I am indeed not anonymous here.
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I guess I don't really get what's the point of the project then. I just see a QR code and a github repo that says "anonymouse chat!"
Not trying to dismiss it or discourage development, but I don't see the point nor understand the claims being made.
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Not trying to dismiss it or discourage development, but I don't see the point nor understand the claims being made.
No worries, it's still valuable feedback that the use case is not clear!
But does that mean that the mentioned use cases don't make sense to you?
- put a QR code on your letter box so people at your door can reach you without any PII
- put QR codes anywhere where people may want to open instant support chat sessions
- put QR code at your website to let people chat with you
(just realized I forgot to add "even when you are not at home" in the first point)
However, big reasons were certainly just for fun and see how to build stuff on nostr.
I will print one QR code and put it on my letter box. Let's see if I ever get a message, haha
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From a technical standpoint I have no idea what it's doing or how it claims to be anonymous, so from my understandings of how broken nostr DM's are, I do not like it nor want to encourage anyone going down that path.
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Fair point
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