Have they commented on this? Seems antithetical to the freedom tech ethos. Usually Odell has always seemed straight up about privacy trade offs of tech alternatives

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My guess is the bitcoin investors and influencers that are invested in these apps see it as a way to increase bitcoin adoption, and they donโ€™t particularly care about maximizing nostr decentralization. they see it as an acceptable tradeoff. Or maybe they just donโ€™t realize it? It is kind of deceptive so maybe they donโ€™t know. I point it out occasionally but i never get a response, so maybe they donโ€™t want it pointed out.
Nice to have receipts. I hope what you claim is not true or there's something else to it. Even still I believe Odell to be a net benefit to the space by large margin. He is prolific with content creation that is directionally correct. As for the response to signal, the draw back of logs is easily avoided by turning off notifications. Could Odell have mentioned that in his note, sure. Should he have to? No, IMO.
Both plausible. I sympathize with running a VC fund. There is a 100% certainty some portfolio company is going to go left when you want them to go right. And the fund doesn't benefit, nor is itconstructive, to call out those decisions (mostly). Would it be more accurate to call such a product as nostr "app" instead of a client?
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