In-reply-to » @bender Yes, they do 🀣 Implicitly, or threading would never work at all πŸ˜… Nor lookups 🀣 They are used as keys. Think of them like a primary key in a database or index. I totally get where you're coming from, but there are trade-offs with using Message/Thread Ids as opposed to Content Addressing (like we do) and I believe we would just encounter other problems by doing so.

@xuu@txt.sour.is True πŸ˜… I guess it comes down to our risk appetite and the attack vectors we’re trying to solve for πŸ€”

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