Npubs are not accounts, they're digital pens you use to sign notes.
Maybe don't use your Happily Married Mormon pen to sign the notes in the XXX Dreams chatroom.
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And npubs aren't scarce. You can have as many as you want. There are 63 characters. We aren't going to run out.
I mean, the npub+nsec combination.
I'm very curious how the whole handling of multiple npubs is going to play out:
- for me personally (especially when we reach a level where it's safer to start doing some illegal things)
- and for the UX in general. Easy switching is a must but what else?
The relays must also switch. That doesn't always happen.
Also, I wish I could switch without leaving a feed, just to reply to something.
And some way to prove that you own both. I link both to my Alby wallet, for instance.
Yep, designing a switch account method IN the reply box is on my list. Love that idea!
The ownership / linking of npubs thing doesn't seem to urgent but it's already something we're bumping into in Zapstore (App npub - Builder(s) npub).
Reputation vouching etc between your own npubs will also be a thing further down the road I think.
Yeah, people keep DMing me, to ask if Silberwitch is an imposter.
I actually see it in a very banal way, as well. Don't want to use my social media key for my utility bill payment or my employer's chat.