Selfie Records, https://x.com/Synonym_to/status/1833907090567602589, are the logical extreme of things like BOLT12 addresses, Lightning Addresses, and any other centralized, censorable, user-impractical solution for identity or payment protocol.

This stuff is great for superficial convenience, but all petname/nickname/naming schemes ultimately require an authority to define the namespace and accounts.

Personally, I think name-squatting is dumb, and I would rather people focus on making it practical to use a key-based web. So that's what we are working on. We are working on actually self-sovereign identity and a new web around it.

So, if you think DNS is cool, I encourage to take a look at a solution we have already released, PKARR: https://github.com/pubky/pkarr

It's the best decentralized identity solution we could think of, and that we know of. It is being used by Iroh, and TBD, and soon, Synonym.

This alone fixes most of what's wrong with Nostr, ignores what is cruft from DIDs, and is powered by the most decentralized network on the planet, Mainline DHT, the same network that has been providing torrents to you for decades.

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