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 💯 You can use Nostr to create public squares and private clubs and to move between them.

I can hang out in the "Daily Bible Study Corny Chat" and then check the "Coders Boards" and then switch over to doomscrolling foodstr and shitposting on Amethyst.

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 Is setting up multiple accounts the only practical way of accomplishing this?

I know how to kinda filter views, but haven't found any way to control where the posts go on a single account. For example, I'd want want posts about programming go to one set of relays and posts about bible study go to a separate set of relays. 
 That's why I have two npubs with different maibox relays, yes. 
 y'all are so far ahead of me on this  
 I'm far ahead of everyone on this. 😂 
 Npubs are not accounts, they're digital pens you use to sign notes.

Maybe don't use your Happily Married Mormon pen to sign the notes in the XXX Dreams chatroom.

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 And npubs aren't scarce. You can have as many as you want. There are 63 characters. We aren't going to run out. 
 I mean, the npub+nsec combination. 
 I'm very curious how the whole handling of multiple npubs is going to play out: 
- for me personally (especially when we reach a level where it's safer to start doing some illegal things)
- and for the UX in general. Easy switching is a must but what else?  
 The relays must also switch. That doesn't always happen.

Also, I wish I could switch without leaving a feed, just to reply to something.

And some way to prove that you own both. I link both to my Alby wallet, for instance. 
 Yep, designing a switch account method IN the reply box is on my list. Love that idea!

The ownership / linking of npubs thing doesn't seem to urgent but it's already something we're bumping into in Zapstore (App npub - Builder(s) npub).
Reputation vouching etc between your own npubs will also be a thing further down the road I think. 
 
 Yeah, people keep DMing me, to ask if Silberwitch is an imposter. 
 I actually see it in a very banal way, as well. Don't want to use my social media key for my utility bill payment or my employer's chat.