Replying to Avatar The Daniel ⚡️

It’s weird that nostr clients can’t even seem to agree on how to display the names of users.

Some have a field for “name” and nothing else. Others have “display name” and “username” or “handle”.

Depending on which client you see my profile on, my name looks different.

Can’t we even get that one basic thing settled?
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Fabian 2y ago

NIP-01 defines “name”, it would be nice if all clients just used that and nothing more. I think the confusion and all other fields comes from it describing to put a username in that field, instead of just name so people invented other fields to put names.

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The Daniel ⚡️ 2y ago

There are way too many name fields, agreed. I would be happy just seeing “name” and then let NIP-05s be an additional way to reference a user. We already have npub, it’s too complicated to add more than that.

Who goes first to start removing some of them?