Yeah, but it’s deeper than that, regardless of how much structure we put around it, an actor with enough motivation could likely identify any of us on Nostr, anon or not. We all leak shit in the background and you have to get it right 100% of the time (nearly impossible over the long term), even on minor mistake is enough to be the answer to the tangled knot.

So even anon accounts I think have an incentive to maintain and conduct themselves as personas with embedded social value (and therefore real world risk if sufficiently bad behavior is discovered).

But for people that just want to be anons and hang out and #zap and shit then yeah all good. But I think that’s fairly similar for non anons anyways.

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My real life identity could definitely be discovered by a determined government, and probably by a determined someone else as well. It’s not like I’ve been careful about connecting to relays only through a VPN. And anyone studying my notes would be able to figure out a few things about my demographics, education, and what country and time zone I live in. My precautions are against people who care only enough to search for me on Google.

Indeed