Subnostr

i just figured out there is no official name for this syntax, i could be wrong:

name@example.com

it should be called an account, because that's what it represents, and that is what it always has represented, a login name and the domain it applies to (a credential would be including the password or other auth)

to be really strictly correct, it's a domain account, but that is a bit redundant

nip-05 names are a domain account, emails are a domain account, all the centralized services use these account things

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shinohai 1y ago

inb4 half of the "idea guys" here come to bikeshed the meaning of the word account for the next month.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

account and "log in" have the connection of being a record of activity

a public key is not an account it is an identifier

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

also, idea guys are starting to get on my nerves

build a thing while you spec it out

only noobs would not know the problem i speak of

MichaelJ 1y ago

Do you think we could rig up some way to use NIP-05 addresses to sign up for centralized services?

Tim Bouma 1y ago

“Name is deliberately not defined”

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8141.html