With something like nostr, native contact lists might make it a little more manageable relative to email. With email there’s also the assumption that it’s a private inbox, which you can’t assume with nostr because you blast your pubkey everywhere.

k00b

I'd love to hear people smarter than me talk about the tradeoffs of using public key encryption as a replacement for email. But I wonder if we end up in the same spot with a pile of pubkeys instead of email addresses...