Frederik Handberg7d agoAgree with this. It is a problem that you cannot reset your nsec like you can with a password on Instagram, but it’s a hard problem to solve for anything decentralized with cryptographic keys, so I don’t see that changing.
Idk what the solution is, but assuming that non-tech people will be able to manage a keypair is hard for me to believe. People click all sorts of shit on Facebook all the time and get their account hijacked. Just looking at my own family, I’ve seen it happen… But then again, who is the target audience of something as nerdy as Nostr? The barrier to entry may not be very high for opening Primal, generating a keypair, and looking at the feed. It just looks like a normal social network, so it’s familiar, but there is quite a bit of terminology to understand which increases the barrier to entry.
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inkan7d ago"... assuming that non-tech people will be able to manage a keypair is hard for me to believe ..."
That may be hard to believe right now, but culture changes. I mean things that once looked nerdy for non-tech people are now life skills, and some things take off precisely because there's a learning curve involved. Managing a key pair may be a barrier initially, but it can also turn into a kind of literacy where people have a sense of ownership in the skills they've developed. I'd think that lots of mass behaviors weren't really seamless when they were introduced. Think of bodybuilding, or early personal computing. These required a lot of effort and learning by the "consumer."
I've posted additional screenshots from Inkan so that people can get a better sense of what it's doing -- see below.
I've also put your pubbkey on the allowlist in case you'd like to try it out the protype. Questions, comments, complaints etc. are welcome.
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Frederik Handberg7d agoA lot of things in the world of technology is initially used by nerds and then later it is adopted by the masses and becomes mainstream. So yeah, it’s not impossible to believe that the same thing could happen to Nostr. However, the things that became mainstream had some kind of utility. For most people, I don’t think they would see any utility in Nostr. Most (at least in the West) don’t experience censorship. Most don’t “care” about freedom, digital sovereignty and so on. But culture changes as you correctly point out, so who knows :)
Btw. Thanks. I will check it out.
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