I feel like this is not an optimal approach for building the nostr community and could lead to centralized silos cutting others out.
I first saw this kind of thing with the old nostr nests and didnt realize it was intentional across the nostr plebs properties.
Seems disrespectful.
If you paid, you paid.
If you use the service you're shown in the directory. If you're not using the service you're not shown. No one is cut out. Cutting someone out would be not displaying someone in the directory if they were still using the service.
Im still using the service even if I dont set it as my singular nostr address.
how are you still using it if you're not displaying it? that's their main use case and how it's used. it's an identifier. if you're not displaying it as an identifier then i don't see how it's being used.
I can point people to various nostr address providers where my pubkey is registered with a username by means other then a single field in a kind 0 as well as lookup older/newer kind 0 for historical changes.
WoT would be enhanced by support for multiple nostr addresses for attestation by organizations, and annotations of addresses not presently, but formerly used
i do agree here. a better system should be designed. the more reputable registrars, the better WoT will be. it should have many factors. domain age, page rank, etc. i.e. nostrverified.com touted themselves as verification and then a year later didn't renew their domain and rugged all of their users. this would be a negative in their WoT score.
