Oddbean new post about login | logout What icon(s) do you most associate with npub? With nsec?
I’m talking about the language we use and how we frame it. I wonder if we should completely do away with it and embrace “keys” “Access key” “Read only key” For example …
Yes. I am asking about the visual language, which I am guessing is easier for people to grok. For instance, microsoft gulag corporate “account” is the faceless person upper body silhouette.
Yes. I've been using nostr only for a few days but have been thinking that it was a bit off when clients referred to "accounts". "Read-Only Key" works, but "Access Key" does not capture the main idea since "access" could also mean only "read". Maybe something like "Write Key" or "Write Access Key".
View-only key Full-access key
Publish Read only
Publish key doesn't emphasize, that this is the secret key. On centralized platforms you can give someone publish rights, and later revoke it with your full/admin access.
I have qualms about key being used for the npub.
Key Etymology: “
> instrument for opening locks," Middle English keie, from Old English cæg "metal piece that works a lock, key" literal and figurative ("solution, explanation, one who or that which opens the way or explains"), a word of unknown origin, abnormal evolution, and no sure cognates other than Old Frisian kei.”
Key makes perfect sense for nsec.