Nuh 🔻 on Nostr: This is not true at all 1. Nostr identity is impossible to separate from Nostr ...
This is not true at all
1. Nostr identity is impossible to separate from Nostr relays, there is no other working network to find information about a key, not even simple stuff like Signal username or Matrix ID.
2. Even if you mean identity as in Auth mechanism to centralized servers, that is basically LNURL auth then and it sucks.
3. Without delegation, these keys won't fuckin last, billions of users is a pipe dream, it is a struggle to even get software engineers to secure active keys for a month straight!
That being said, I agree in general that we can give sovereign identity to billions of users, much easier than decentralizing real-time social applications. I just don't think Nostr keys are good enough.
1. Nostr identity is impossible to separate from Nostr relays, there is no other working network to find information about a key, not even simple stuff like Signal username or Matrix ID.
2. Even if you mean identity as in Auth mechanism to centralized servers, that is basically LNURL auth then and it sucks.
3. Without delegation, these keys won't fuckin last, billions of users is a pipe dream, it is a struggle to even get software engineers to secure active keys for a month straight!
That being said, I agree in general that we can give sovereign identity to billions of users, much easier than decentralizing real-time social applications. I just don't think Nostr keys are good enough.
quoting note14ct…dkc6Yes, but nostr is really two protocols combined:
1. Nostr Identity -- scales to billions of users
2. Nostr relays -- provably scales to 1000s and up to 1 million users perhaps
Both are valuable, 1 is very high on the sovereignity spectrum. But can also be combined with other systems to make them reach parity.