Notes from the Rabbit Hole: Making Sense of Nostr Event Kinds

Picking up where I left off in the [last post]. I said the protocol was small and that everything in Nostr is "just a signed JSON event with a `kind` field." That sentence is true, but it papers over the most interesting part of the whole system. The `kind` is where Nostr stops being a Twitter clone and starts being something weirder.