To help easily find and identify people. It's a human readable format for your public key. A million derekross@domains may exist, but only one derekross@nostrplebs.com will ever exist. Besides, spam bots abuse email and we still use that.

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I agree with that but we should deprecate the use of the "purple check" icon in clients since it's misleading from a UX standpoint