Re:atproto and the ownership of identity
by rglullis on Saturday January 18, 2025 @10:42PM
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> I never heard of anyone wanting to use a domain name as identity in Nostr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svg
The one thing that completely turned me off nostr is the idea that my identity is tied to my private key and that it can not be recovered. I'd guess that the reason you don't hear from people like me is that we simply don't bother to work with such a boneheaded design.
Re:atproto and the ownership of identity
by quantadev on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:47PM
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I always felt like in the age of cryptocurrencies, people can be expected to protect their private key, and yeah pretty much if they lose it, they lose their data. I mean that's how encryption works also. No key, no data. I don't call that boneheaded. I think it's a feature not a bug.
Key rotation is an unnecessary complexity, imo. I never heard of anyone wanting to use a domain name as identity in Nostr, but there's probably a NIP for that where a domain can prove it owns the private key, and be used as an identity.
I mainly quit Nostr development because it was all essentially controlled by 'fiatjaf', and he was making bad decisions, and a childish intolerable arrogant person in general whenever people asked him to justify those decisions.