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To address large contact lists, we will need to make the distinction between a "contact" and a "follow". Lots of people are following others just because there is no way to simply add a contact and mark a specific key as the real/trusted one, given the high number of impersonating profiles on Nostr. Users don't necessarily want to follow, but Nostr doesn't really have just lists of "contacts" right now. Everything we did, as spec, seems to be centered on "following". We will have to change that soon or later.

Sebastix 4mo ago

Would a contact be defined as a mutual follow between two pubkeys?

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Jivan Pal 4mo ago

That definitely wouldn't be a useful model of "contact" in the sense of "entry in an address book".

A contact should simply be a record of a public key and an identity, perhaps with your signature attesting the extent to which you believe the key is associated with that identity. This would provide a practically useful system similar to PGP's model. Whether that record remains local, or is published/broadcast as in PGP's public web-of-trust model (which is now largely considered societally broken), is a choice for the person that creates/holds that record.

Visual Cody 4mo ago

I would think so.

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Dawn 4mo ago

I thought that way, too. I don't think contact is the right term to use as it implies I can somehow contact a person, which isn't necessarily true. Maybe we need a "vouch list" or something?