As much as it sucks to get locked out of what you thought was your own account, this experience is teaching others an extremely valuable lesson about data ownership.
Now that you’re building a new presence on Nostr, make sure to back up your nsec in more than one place. I use two different password managers and an offline backup as well. A $10 USB stick in a fireproof lockbox should suffice.
The only person who can lock you out of Nostr is yourself.
Good idea about the USB stick, I use several clients (is that the right word? Apps) and Damus has remembered it for me, although I’m preferring Primal these days, and I’ve written all those characters down on paper, but USB is easier
Yes! If all your clients and keys are on the same device, you don’t have redundancy. I know several people personally who lost their Nostr profile because their phone got lost or stolen and they had never backed up their nsec. This can be easily avoided by copying and pasting it somewhere safe in a different place, or even writing it down on paper like you did.
