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@ Dikaios1517
2025-05-08 16:45:13
That makes sense. Tools like NADAR exist already for searching all known relays for a particular event, and yes, an event you want to share in this way could be intentionally blasted far and wide to assist in finding it with just the first several characters of the hex. Runs against the philosophy of outbox, though.
I think maybe sharing a 6 or 7 word string of the author's hex pubkey along with 6 or 7 words of the event's hex ID would probably do the trick, and be more in line with outbox, though.
A user could pretty quickly commit to memory the phrase referring to their public key, so they would just need to add the phrase representing the particular event they want to share. Clients could then find the author's kind 10002, which should already be blasted far and wide in the relays, and look for the event itself on the author's listed outbox relays.
I feel like this could help diminish the chances of collision as well. How likely is it there will be two events with the same author and the same leading 6 characters for their hex ID?