**You've heard of Twitter Blue, right? Introducing Nostr Purple!**
Don't like Twitter Blue? Think it's a scam? Think it's bullshit to pay $8 a month, forever?
No worries! Say GFY to overlords with Nostr and Nostr Purple!
Now available at http://nostrplebs.com for $21 for life.
When you visit http://nostrplebs.com/register, please notice that there's a dropdown box where you can select your domain. You can choose http://nostrplebs.com or http://nostrpurple.com. If you're the pleb type, choose pleb, if you're the GFY type, choose purple. Enjoy.
This is only the beginning.
**Tiny disclaimer:**
This isn't how nip-05 was designed to be used; this would make sense if you get access to a domain-restricted relay. Otherwise 'verification' in this way means nothing. You're supposed to be in control of the domain you're using for verification.
**End disclaimer**
This isn't verification. It's an Identifier. There's a difference there. NIP-05 ID's are great in their design, but people have been trained over the last decade that a checkmark means verified. Where in the Nostr sense, that's not the case. NIP-05 ID's are just an ID and anyone and everyone can and should have an ID.
I thin an alternative manual verification could be checking on twitter if the one you want to follow posted his pub key
very nice! appreciated
Spot on, so the dude charging ppl just for adding entries in the json file on his webserver? :-)
Absolutely. Not everyone will pay $12 a year for a domain. Not everyone will host a server themselves at home or in the cloud somewhere. It's extremely simple, but people like simple. The average person likes simple and easy.
There seems to be a lot of tech support related as well 😂 some wouldn’t bother with the hassle
The past 3 days I've done nothing but help people all day long update their nostr profile metadata to display their NIP-05 domain. These people would would fit your narrative. They wouldn't bother with the hassle if they had to do it all on their own. They just want an easy ID for recognition, searchability, and to have their ID be in a human readable format, not a pubkey key.
Seems like a good trade off to me, a few well known domains can offer to do the technical side. this at least proves that users had some sats in the game and are unique on that particular well known domain. People are still free to do their own domain/hosting.
People should also keep in mind this isn’t the final state of the “checkmark” the domains going to be verifiable in app at some point or at least that’s what I interpreted
I tend to agree with you. You get a check mark and that’s cool but an identity was not really verified. I would say NIP-5 does a pretty good job of proving a given about isn’t a bot due to either the effort of setup or paying the fee.
On the flip side the NIP-5 spec makes it sound more like an identifier to make locating an account easier to search for and even the method of having 1000 accounts under one domain does improve account lookup.
Correct! The spec IS for an identifier. It's not verification. People are confusing the two. That's fine, normally a check mark means verification social networking platforms.
For example: There could be 10,000 billybob accounts on nostr, but only one will ever be billybob@nostrplebs.com.
This isn't verifying that billybob from nostrplebs is the "real billybob". It's identifying that one of the billybob's out there is from nostrplebs. That's it.
