#nostr accounts shouldn't be called accounts as they aren't accounts. What's a better word? #asknostr
Discussion
I like "persona" instead of account.
I have multiple personas, which I might like to express via multiple npubs.
Identity is and always has been prismatic. You're a different person in the office, at home, at church, or at a strip club.
Identity also isn't self-assigned, which is why #WoT needs to take personas into consideration.
You might trust your doctor with health advice, but probably not with investment advice. Likewise, your financial advisor might not be the best person to ask for recipes.
what's your handle?
what's your @?
We can't have handles on nostr because of Zooko's triangle. 
Best we can do is self-hosted NIP-05 which turns your domain into your handle, which is why the following link leads to my profile:
njump.me/dergigi.com
oke i see now what you mean
i say we rebrand what handle or @ means - both nip05's and npub can fall under it 😗
Sad once I read Zooko I'm just out. I'm sure he has a great triangle. May his groceries never end.
Well somebody should tell Zooko to stop with that triangle so that we can.
Namecoin
We are gonna land on local llm with periodic fine tuning and some rag eventually. I'll wait patiently. Everyone converging slowly.
Not everyone is lol
I teach my grandbabies that rules are different in different places and they get it from a very young age and for that matter so did my poodle
I like persona(s)
I like persona
I prefer npub. Its very short and nostr specific. Persona is a mouth full as it has three syllables already. Plus you would need to explain the context: The term is not nostr specific.
Fair. My main point is that, in a permissioned system, the system usually encourages ONE account.
We shouldn't necessarily do that on nostr. I'd love e.g. the encouragement of temporary npubs to try out a client, etc.
I also like npub. 🤷♀️
I've got like 8 of them, already, but this is my main one.
I like npub too but it's context dependent. What I want to get rid of is the "Create account" buttons.
"Create npub" doesn't work in that case, it's too confusing if you're new. "Create profile" is great, so I guess a profile has an npub, but isn't an npub.
Sorry what's wrong with "identity"
People are used to having multiple profiles.
Only weirdos talk about their different identities.
psychopaths and glowies but i repeat myself
Four syllables
Yeah, I think profile works well there. Also makes NIP-sense because we have profile events and that's what you're literally creating.
...but it doesn't work in the "what's your profile" sense because profiles change. The npub is static, which is why "what's your npub" works.
Maybe #nostrname - I use the #nostrname to locate someone first and then check the npub and nip-05 to see if they’re legit. There is a reasonable code of conduct not to use someone else’s name, but it is hardly trustworthy without the additional checks. Just see nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and see how many jacks are out there.
I prefer “profile” because it’s information that can be known by others and in most cases is made pubic. In contrast, “settings” is specific to the device or service and is usually private.
I don’t like “persona” because it sounds too metaphysical for the average user.
I lean towards "Join Nostr" lately. And then some explainer that on Nostr it's all secured by cryptographic keys - "profile" misses that point even more than "account". I feel it should be "Nostr _network_" (not abc.com) -> "Keys/nsec/npub" -> "Profile, notes, etc". If we don't talk about keys then we might as well just keep using "account".
And I think "what's your npub?" seems like the best option - it's short, it's purpose is same as "handle", it's new and different (people should learn about public keys), and it's shorter than "nostr id/address". OTOH even if we all start using "what's your npub?", I would bet people will be using "npub" to mean nip05 eventually, because nip05 serves the same purpose and is human readable.
Yeah, I like that. Language and meaning has a tendency to shape itself around the easiest way to say things and accrue the right meaning. “npub” can do the job.
Create access key?
My girl Sybil is totally down with that😀
Pubs.
Identity?
Key? 🔑
Pairs
Or pears? 🍐
Hash?
Profiles?
Identity?
Pubkeys
nyms
babe wake up, new gigi thread just dropped
I use "npubs" as a noun. If twitter manage to make "tweet" a thing, so can we meme "npubs" into human natural language.
Npub?
Profiles
Works well for "Create your profile" but not so well for "What's your profile?"
In any case, I like it & something appropriate will emerge organically in time.
It does the job to replace the centralized notion of “create account”.
Maybe nostr address could be used for the latter. “Whats your nostr address”
I liked the suggestion ’nyms’ and myself though something with pubkey/npub was naturally appropriate
How about profile?
nid?
Nym
nymstr - pseudonym stuff transmitted by relays.
Because if you make a nostr npub that's not transmitted by relays did you really even make a nostr npub?
nvoice
“What’s your nostr?” works just fine.
Is 'taxpayer' not universally applicable?
MONEY TRANSMITTRS
Other Stuff
Callsign
identity
Strings
What are the importance of words?
Except "is" according to Bill Clinton and everyone else who didn't call his social engineering, Marxist doublespeak. #wordsmeanthings or nothing means anything.
I have always called them profiles.
nostr:npub1fhpw2ux9flhcxyl6xp84996qgnkkcy59zqzjvq9fhpxcx7upymus69ds8n 👀
Key pairs
#Pub is quite easy and handy and brings no problems of other meanings.
If you talk about bar or a pub you would actually call it by the name of the bar.
Profile
Keys
How about #Nostr Journal
My #Nostr Life
I thought about this while having an epsom salt soak, and I think 'Keyset' is probably the right answer.
#log
#nostrlog
presence
DID decentralized identity.
K E Y S
ID
Great point! Since #nostr is all about decentralization and not the typical account setup, how about calling them "identities" or "profiles"? Both suggest a more personal and less formal connection to the user. What do you think? #asknostr
Identity?
avatar
alias
key holders
Gigis
Thoughts.
Nostradamus had thoughts, insights, predictions.
Logins
Pubs
Nostr Identities? Profile? Universal Passport?
I like npub 🤷🏾♂️
I remember 3 days in #trilema chat where all assembled decided to bikeshed the semantics of "post" and "article" when publishing a piece to your blog.
Be sovereign and call it whatever you damn well please.
nostr:note1kc8xuy547c4y6k4f50egt9843nelv2ygvpwmv8fyldjyl6vjrvqqgcwyg8
People mean 2 different things when they refer to their social 'accounts.'
1. Their identity, specifically the credentials, but also the settings of the attached environment. (i.e. retaining their mute list & dark mode.) We can simply refer to this as our "npubs" or the less-geeky "nostr number."
2. Their presence, which includes their followers but is really the idea of themselves that they've marketed to the world. This is the part they really don't want stolen, and they could care less if it is protected by their identity. I don't think referring to this as part of your npub does is good enough... Once we have revocable npubs it literally doesn't fit anymore.
So far we've only referred to the latter as an 'account', but it does deserve a name of its' own. Perhaps something like their 'social soul' or the more obvious 'social presence.'
lupins ?
Nym
Keypair
Cryptocount
"Account" is a catch-all term for a user's identity on a platform. I am personally fine calling it an account - although it's just a keypair. But yet, "account" makes /much/ more sense for many people.
user
goats
profiles
Agents
Plebs
nbc
nostr business card
identity (ID), profile
Ids (as in id and ego Freud)
npubs
nostr:note1kc8xuy547c4y6k4f50egt9843nelv2ygvpwmv8fyldjyl6vjrvqqgcwyg8
npub. people just think it means "public name"