Aspie96 on Nostr: So, fiatjaf, the founder of Nostr, now uses a client which randomly adds meaningless ...

So, fiatjaf (npub180c…h6w6), the founder of Nostr, now uses a client which randomly adds meaningless "e" tags of type "mention" when he replies to a thread, pointing to some previous item on the thread.

The standard thing for a client to do when displaying such posts would be that of showing the referenced note as a quoted note. I don't think this is the intention.

Why do client include tags that make no sense?

See this posts for instance:

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nevent1q…764u

Why not?

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nevent1q…4ck2

Your deep dive missed the fact that they have a big central data hub that is ran by a single company that all apps hardcode and has all the network effect such that it is de facto impossible for anyone else to run another (and if someone did it would be inconsequential and useless since there would be no incentive for anyone to move).

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