I'm with you on this. If we had legacy website accounts then user name and display name may make sense since you'd use one to login and the latter to be displayed on your profile? However on nostr we have NIP05 which is your identifier and we have display name. The common "name" filed seems unnecessary.
Hey, guys, got a noob question I never thought of before: What’s the difference between the Display name and Username? What is username’s use case?
From what I see, username, display name and the prefix of your address can be all different and all of them can be used to tag or search for users. Feels like we’ve got an unnecessary “Name” field. What am I missing?
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If I don’t find out the reason for this l’ma start the #killtheusername campaign 😄