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 Proton could just use Nostr instead of forcing people to create Proton accounts... 😏  
 Identity trees with optional public links would solve this.

You have a master identity/key which can generate child keys, you use a different child per site/service which you can show only the child identity, or you allow it to follow the tree up to a parent identity.

You only share the private key for the child with the site/service, so if it is leaked the damage is contained. The parent key can also sign messages for the child key, so you could still go in an override anything the child does etc.