Nostr Web Client

This may be an incredibly dumb question, but why doesn’t nostr allow people to signup with other platforms?

Could it not just generate a key for you no matter which service you signed up with?

Or is this technically impossible?

Interesting idea, at least bootstrapping all the acct info:

- avatar

- bio

- cover image

Maybe going through the social graph and suggesting friends who are already on Nostr

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Exactly. Could also just show the login keys right after and some notice in dashboard to save them asap.

Or even just save them in the keychain automatically

Why should I as a user bother copying the key and pasting it to the keychain

That should be possible 🤔

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You mean to have a smoother onboarding?

Yep.

Yes, I spent a big chunk of my time yesterday figuring things out

This. 😆

I'm not a dev but isn't nostr exactly fixing this, because web2 platforms are all operating in a different way and pulling data is almost impossible?

That’s what I’m asking. If we can have a hybrid approach that doesn’t scrap everything and makes use of existing tech to bootstrap this one.

No biggie if impossible. Just trying to see if there is a way to smooth out onboarding so it’s dead simple.

Which social networks do you cae in mind to onboard from?

Twitter, Facebook, Google auth, Instagram (maybe Apple if using Apple device on mobile?)

Those that have api access and have auth to prove the authenticity are easy to implement

But nostr seems to mostly have twitter-like clients and i’d assume that providing a refuge from twitter would be most desired

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The types of clients will vary and explode soon enough