Nostr

Your reputation is your true private key. Your reputation is what gives your #Nostr keys any value to others in the first place, not the other way around. Nobody follows you because they like your npub; they like you, and so they follow the npub you use. Protect your keys, of course, but it is very easy to generate a new key pair if your old one gets compromised. Be more concerned about your reputation and the value and quality of content you are providing to others. If someone switches to a new key, it will get shared around, and if you wanted to follow them before, you will want to follow them again. Rebuilding a lost follower list is a lot easier than rebuilding a lost reputation.

Viktor Vsk 2y ago

Sounds cool and this is the way but unfortunately this is not how real life works

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corndalorian 2y ago

It’s in fact exactly how it works. Every change phone numbers? The people who care about you will obtain and use your new contact. The rest didn’t matter anyway and only existed as some statistic (follower count) that makes you feel good.

Viktor Vsk 2y ago

You are talking about some instant messenger use case. Social media today works thanks to the fact there are 10% of creators with a huge follower lists who create 90% of content and 90% of consumers who create 10% of content

Without creators social media becomes instant messenger with bonuses. You can’t build social network without making it really work for creators

And creators won’t use it if there are only their friends who will follow them