Nostr NIPs are sort of putting the cart before the horse. They try to enforce a standard before anything has even been tried.
Compare to AtProto which just lets apps each make their own lexicon and then later on down the line competing apps can come together and settle on something like an NIP if they wish.
https://atproto.com/blog/standard-site-bluesky-timeline
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2026-06-06 16:58:17 UTC
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npub12a77qmwwzc9qx7gk8f9m0d5qhclq5rsudr0xu6agcqgnfdzqvnwsfrrdydPublished at
2026-06-06 16:58:17 UTCEvent JSON
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