It’s bad because you won’t own anything on a site with signup/login.

At sign up, you are just requesting to be recorded in some company's database.

On log in and usage of the service you’ll be asking for permission for everything you do.

Personally, I did not come to nostr because of a landing page. I’m here for the private/public key pair I get to own, and the growing number of stuff I can do with it.

I was tired of not owning my social connections and of worrying about when I’d be penalized next. 

 > It’s bad because you won’t own anything on a site with signup/login.

> At sign up, you are just requesting to be recorded in some company's database.

Sure, you and I and many on nostr understand this. 

For the new to nostr normie login/signup is a standard pattern. 

 true. i’ve lost the ability to think normal after years of software development, too 😄

but word of mouth will also do it’s thing. even though they don’t understand the protocol it will still become common knowledge that it’s smart to build on private/public keys. at least corporates will get it quick 

 I agree the ownership of identity part is key. 

Scary: “crytographic public private keypairs”
Bit more normie friendly: “own your identity”