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#asknostr

Which Nostr client allows you to back up your notes and move them to another account?

You can't really back up a note and migrate them to another account.

All messages and notes are signed by your private key. Another account would have another private key. What you're asking is to resign all notes and republish them as if they were made by someone else.

1. Some relays will refuse to accept notes back dated so far in the past.

2. Every note has an ID but that ID is auto-generated based on the message, the author and so on. You can't make another note with the same ID.

3. A note with a different ID won't carry with it the replies, likes and references that the old note had.

It would be cool to understand your use case as there may be a way to design something that suits your use case while still following the rules of nostr.

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Annie☕ 2y ago

I made my private key public. Want to create a new account but also want to keep old notes. I guess I can just check the old account if I want information in the future.

Big Barry Bitcoin 2y ago

That was unfortunate. I can't imagine any solution that a bad actor couldn't reverse or make worse.

I think you're going to have to create a duplicate account, move your profile over and employ all of your followers to drop the old account and follow the new one.

You can post from both to give some sort of proof of truth, and the sooner everyone is off the old account and following your new one, the sooner you can pretend it never happened.

Big Barry Bitcoin 2y ago

Emplore*

Annie☕ 2y ago

Makes sense. All I was concerned with was someone being able to zap or post notes.

Big Barry Bitcoin 2y ago

#asknostr

Does it make sense to build a kill switch note type that effectively tells relays to block anything related to a specific user id?

The "If I can't have it, no one can" feature.

Annie☕ 2y ago

Something like that would be nice. But it would have to be voluntary. Some people may not want that.

Big Barry Bitcoin 2y ago

You would have to sign and publish such an event yourself.

In your case, someone else could do it, but all it does is prevent further misuse of a compromised account. There is no putting the cat back in the box anyway.

So if you have your key safe and sound, it's your choice to destroy the account or not. You might do it if you don't want the account anymore, or you may never do it.

If your account is compromised, you can lock it down or let it be used for nefarious reasons. It's up to you but also up to anyone else who has your private key.

Annie☕ 2y ago

Yes, I would use something like that. But I suspect it goes against the overall ethos on Nostr of keeping everything permanent. I'll keep the old account open until I have time to create a new one. I just won't zap with it.

Big Barry Bitcoin 2y ago

Looks like there's already something brewing in the pipeline.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/blob/key-invalidation-and-migration/37.md

Annie☕ 2y ago

I knew I saw something in my feed. Thanks for searching. I'm going to watch this to see how it goes.

Annie☕ 2y ago

Got the wallet fixed. Thanks for the help.