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The Dog 5mo ago

I Believe selling your Nostr account is impractical and morally wrong, it voids all meaning and trust to people.

I have received an offer to potentially purchase my old Uno NPUB, which I turned down without a second thought.

This is nothing against the person who offered, they are cool, a good friend, and don’t think it would be used maliciously, however I am not here for publicity or personal financial gains, and I believe that it is wrong to do ethically as well.

People follow you because they find value in what you share, this kind of lets people who support you down as well and causes confusion.

When I first joined Nostr as many know, I ran my LightX account for a while, coming from X/Twitter and following a lot of the people there, I did come here for attention, I admit that, it’s true, I wanted clout on the internet.

I ran giveaways and stuff of sats to try and get attention, it worked but not in a good way, many of the methods were viewed by many as shady, and they were right.

I got called out for it a lot and I rage quit, people told me back then I should have sold that account too for profit.

I have come a very long way since joining and my views and morals have changed, I have come to love Nostr as a place where we can express ourselves and have a good time, rather than a means to personal gains.

Which is why I have tried to put everything I can into this community now, as I feel I was a burden to it then.

Many of you know this story already, but many probably don’t.

I want to be completely honest and open about it.

I switched to this NPUB as a fresh start, not from my community but in hopes of starting a new path as well and continuing as I have this past year.

Thank you all, I love this community, I am not going anywhere and I will FIGHT to protect it always.

🐶 🫂

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Ray Buni 5mo ago

Your npub and followers have value. 🚀

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SunlitSoul 5mo ago

But is it always morally wrong? If I own a business, I don’t ask my customers for permission to sell it when I am done with it. However, I can be transparent about the change about to happen. Also, people should be reading and making their own decisions as to whom they follow and continue to follow.

If hands were changed but people still like the content, nobody is harmed by it… in the end, the reader is responsible for their choices of whom they follow because of their content and whom they will unfollow because the content no longer serves them.

I’m careful what I call immoral because I don’t want to cheapen the word to things that don’t truly harm anyone. I wonder if I’m missing something though. I’m open to learning.

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The Dog 5mo ago

I’m just sharing my opinion on Nostr in general not business or selling as a whole, maybe not inherently wrong but I stand agasint it. 🐶 🫂

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Spaniard 5mo ago

It’s a doggy dog world

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Ed Hubstead 5mo ago

This is exactly why there needs to be a proper self-sovereign identity system so that it's impossible to sell your identity in any way. You should have one identity; you shouldn't be able to have multiple identities. You should be able to decide how much of your identity and related information you want to share. But under no circumstances should you be able to pretend to be someone else or have someone else pretend to be you. A proper self-sovereign identity would mean you’ve got one chance to behave, and if you don't, it's tied to your reputation for life, just as it should be.

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leadbyexample 5mo ago

how do you define "moral" though? That's key in understanding whether your "morally wrong" claim is valid, in respect to selling one's own nsec.

I argue that doing it is absolutely ethically correct, and whether it's morally wrong is debatable,. depending probably on the history of the npub and the implicit contracts that the npub had made.

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pup 5mo ago

Good dog.

It's painfully obvious when people are here to try to profit versus to learn, grow and interact with the community here.

Happy to be here with you Dog. 💜🐕

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Heinz 5mo ago

Respect for being so open and self-reflective — that takes courage. And Nostr needs exactly those kinds of voices.

Not bought, not sold — but grown.

Thank you for being here and helping shape this space. ⚡