It's possible it's returning an array of 5bit integers which needs to be converted. I should make a quick webpage for converting to the old format...
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Key converter: https://damus.io/key
It worked, thank you! Now I’ll figure out how to publish an event to give myself an avatar
[nostril](https://github.com/jb55/nostril) --envelope --kind 0 --sec hexkey --content '{"name":"j","picture":"https://url.pic","about":"about me"}' | websocat wss://relay.damus.io
For future reference:
noscl setprivate ffff…
noscl relay add wss://relay.damus.io
noscl metadata —picture=“j.gif”
Looks like it worked!