In-reply-to » Location-based addressing is vulnerable to the content changing. If the content changes the "location" is no longer valid. This is a problem if you build systems that rely on this.

I think that’s one of the worst aspects of the proposed idea of location-based addressing or identity. The fact that Alice reads Twt A and Bob reads Twt A at the same location, but Alice and Bob could have in fact read very different content entirely. It is no longer possible to have consistency in a decentralised way that works properly.

One could argue this is fine, because we’re so small and nothing matters, but it’s a properly I rely on fairly heavily in yarnd, a properly that if lost would have significant impact on how yarnd works I think. 🤔

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