What's the point of Google login, Facebook login, Twitter login, or any OAuth login? To make the login process easier and familiar to users.
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I guess. Except lots of people use those services and nobody uses Nostr. I guess in a way it’s a way to grow Nostr more than simplifying UX for a few people
You're absolutely right but you have to start somewhere with adoption. This is just another piece of the puzzle.
I'm thinking about this because I want to build a Nostr app for my selfish use case.
Login with nostr is optional. But it helps sync cross platform.
If you're not logging in there's no sync. It's that simple. Like obsidian. You don't need to use sync, but if you want it, you either figure it out or pay for the service.
With Nostr, I'm not as familiar, but the alternative could be like self hosting on your relay is free, but special Nevents to get your app to sync can be reserved / hidden behind paid relay, hosted by the developer of the Nostr App.
On top of that, here's an additional design feature to bolster adoption:
Downloading from zap store is free, downloading from Playstore / app store is paid.
I'm not a developer but I think what I described is possible? 🕵️♂️
Will be exploring this as I'm testing out vibe coding a nostr app
Sure, for some McDonalds app it won't be worth the trouble implementing unless they also engage on nostr with the users.
Been thinking about this recently…
We have a lot of work to attract business to use the Nostr protocol. At best it will be the “hybrid app” architecture that is most useful. While this COULD end up being little more than Nostr flavored SSO for some black box apps, respecting soveregnty itself IS a “value add” that can be incrementally applied … if we get their foot in the door. I’m writing up a more complete article RN …
As a web 2 dev I’d personally never implement that I don’t think … extra work just to benefit a tiny fraction of users
"we've been hacked. Reset your passwords"
"Google, MS, Discord, and other traditional login methods are facing an attack, so you can't login right now"
> "Nostr users unaffected by these issue"
The benefit is that they'll have users that won't give them a headache, and infact appreciate them for the nostr login =3