Oddbean new post about login | logout I like "persona" instead of account.
I have multiple personas, which I might like to express via multiple npubs.
Identity is and always has been prismatic. You're a different person in the office, at home, at church, or at a strip club.
Identity also isn't self-assigned, which is why #WoT needs to take personas into consideration. You might trust your doctor with health advice, but probably not with investment advice. Likewise, your financial advisor might not be the best person to ask for recipes.
what's your handle? what's your @?
We can't have handles on nostr because of Zooko's triangle. https://image.nostr.build/98bb38289a443232da2b03be1270a4d860e0c5975d5cd89c335925ba55bf2828.jpg
Best we can do is self-hosted NIP-05 which turns your domain into your handle, which is why the following link leads to my profile: njump.me/dergigi.com
Ahhhh ok
Sad once I read Zooko I'm just out. I'm sure he has a great triangle. May his groceries never end.
Well somebody should tell Zooko to stop with that triangle so that we can.
Namecoin
We are gonna land on local llm with periodic fine tuning and some rag eventually. I'll wait patiently. Everyone converging slowly.
im not.
im pretty much always me idk
You're a different you at a funeral & at a rave party.
At an atomic level there is no difference. But at a funeral you're dead.
Not everyone is lol
Yes, everyone is. nostr:nevent1qqs89xz0hdzpqjavqqutmvctgz9yuf0svk0tj7376enckygtnpnqh2cpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgq3qdergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsxpqqqqqqzyv5qzm
Persona gives me a fake non authentic vibe
Agree. Plus I dontbwanna be italian
I was just about to say it.. I mean I am Italian, but fuck yeah! nostr persona!
But I don't wanna be italian
None does 😂 Persona comes from latin anyway..
Rome will never die lol
Gradually, then suddenly.. 😂🤣😅🫂💜
I hold my breath every march but never any Ides.
I prefer npub. Its very short and nostr specific. Persona is a mouth full as it has three syllables already. Plus you would need to explain the context: The term is not nostr specific.
I also like npub. 🤷♀️ I've got like 8 of them, already, but this is my main one.
I like npub too but it's context dependent. What I want to get rid of is the "Create account" buttons. "Create npub" doesn't work in that case, it's too confusing if you're new. "Create profile" is great, so I guess a profile has an npub, but isn't an npub.
Sorry what's wrong with "identity"
People are used to having multiple profiles. Only weirdos talk about their different identities.
i think profile is the right word... but i don't really see what is wrong with account, because it's just an identifier that associates many related items, the word account also means a story
account means "email/tel nr + password" for normies profile doesn't
Four syllables
Yeah, I think profile works well there. Also makes NIP-sense because we have profile events and that's what you're literally creating.
...but it doesn't work in the "what's your profile" sense because profiles change. The npub is static, which is why "what's your npub" works.
Maybe #nostrname - I use the #nostrname to locate someone first and then check the npub and nip-05 to see if they’re legit. There is a reasonable code of conduct not to use someone else’s name, but it is hardly trustworthy without the additional checks. Just see @jack and see how many jacks are out there.
problem with “profile” is that word has pejorative connotations, like you’re being “profiled” or the FBI has a profile on you. What about “gateway” or “portal”?
I prefer “profile” because it’s information that can be known by others and in most cases is made pubic. In contrast, “settings” is specific to the device or service and is usually private. I don’t like “persona” because it sounds too metaphysical for the average user.
I lean towards "Join Nostr" lately. And then some explainer that on Nostr it's all secured by cryptographic keys - "profile" misses that point even more than "account". I feel it should be "Nostr _network_" (not abc.com) -> "Keys/nsec/npub" -> "Profile, notes, etc". If we don't talk about keys then we might as well just keep using "account". And I think "what's your npub?" seems like the best option - it's short, it's purpose is same as "handle", it's new and different (people should learn about public keys), and it's shorter than "nostr id/address". OTOH even if we all start using "what's your npub?", I would bet people will be using "npub" to mean nip05 eventually, because nip05 serves the same purpose and is human readable.
Nvoice Come on guys you gotta admit does have a ring to it...
Sounds like "invoice" so it's bound to confuse.
😭😭😭 my dream of monetization is in ruins
Fair enough back to the drawing board
too geeky for the average noob though...
Then again, they do not have to understand it to use it.
It's just syntax at the end of the day - I think everyone will go with what they like most and what most people associate with that word. At the end it's a way of identifying yourself so probably the most concise word is "ID" and just as with real-world ID you need the signature to make it count...
