Nostr Web Client

What if instead of only allow people to use a private key for login / registration, we had a Sign Up / sign in with Google and upon doing that, a key pair is generated for you and emailed to address. You would still have a nostr npub / nsec, but it would automatically back up for you. The user recognizes the social login, and it’s easier to populate information from that option. It would be like a hybrid mode where you keep the old sign up process but on the front end it’s all nostr. Perhaps then you could use that connection to integrate with other traditional services, perhaps with a database attached. So it would be like nostr, but with a benefit of a light database for some efficiency and integrations with minimal info collected.

Dumb idea? Defeats the entire purpose? Thoughts?

Karel od Martiny 2y ago

I've been thinking recently and I thought - do we really need and want mass adoption? Shouldn't we be more of a parallel platform?

I often see Nostr users writing "the local community is wonderful, full of love and enthusiasm" or "people on Nostr are so much nicer than on Twitter". If you consider these things (like a healthy community without hatred) as decisive advantages of nostr, don't forget that you will lose this advantage by mass adoption. The atmosphere here will then be as rotten as it is today on Twitter.

If we remained a parallel community with some organic entry selection (only people willing to think of their souvereignity will get here) wouldn't that be better in the end?

I do not know the answer, just thinking.

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Robertrobert 2y ago

Nostr & Bitcoin are for everyone.

Karel od Martiny 2y ago

Well yes. For everyone who wants (in other words, who is willing to put some effort into it)

Lucky Kite 2y ago

Nostr is mostly used by people who only want to talk about nostr. Eventually that gets boring. But also pointless.