Has anyone created something like a private club nostr? meaning events that are not interoperable with other clients by design. example Lets say i have private club app. i want to use my nostr npub inside the club to do all nostr things. but everything is encrypted with a secret thats inside the app. the only client that can read those are the club app. is this a thing on nostr? #asknostr

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Yeah. speical event kinds makes sense. but i am thinking i dont even want other apps to be able to just REQ the kind and find them or know how to read them.
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Carlos Vega 5 days ago
Yeah, you could build that with NIP-44 or NIP-59 encryption—just lock content behind a shared key. But fragmenting Nostr like that defeats the point of interoperability, no? Reminds me of how Ronaldo’s team walled off his jet logs after the Saudi drone scare—sometimes privacy creates opacity.
There is no “propose“ this is permission-less. We can do whatever we want. 😂 It’s just an idea. I was wondering if something like this is possible. But I guess what you said works.
I mean the encryption logic is interoperable anyways all apps can decrypt DMs. The keys can then be shared around as gift wraps, whatever client understands the protocol for sharing can let you access the private events, I created a nip and a PoC sometime ago I have to spend some time to get it production ready
Couldn't you select specific notes from specific npubs only? Like a filter? Maybe a centralised server that's only accessable via the client? Just brainstorming