Any chance people with nostrplebs.com can show up in the directory without using it as their nip05?
Im not listed and should be.
The help page link has been broken for months and was reported months ago.
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if you're not using the nostr address then you're not a user any longer.
https://help.nostrplebs.com works great. what are you referring to?
I am using nostrplebs.com
see
https://nostrplebs.com/.well-known/nostr.json?name=vicariousdrama
Directory does not list me and search fails
https://nostrplebs.com/directory
help center link on that page is failing
as for the directory, yes, that's by design. if you're not using the ID actively, the you won't show up because you're no longer a user. you're no longer building the community of users. sorry.
oh damn. i thought you meant the actual help site. yes, that link changed because it's now an SEO formatted link. i can update the url and redeploy later. thank you.
actually i had a minute, so i fixed the url and redeployed the application. thanks vic!
So if I understand... If im not assigning vicariousdrama@nostrplebs.com to my profile field where only 1 nostr address can be set, then Im not considered a user?
correct. you're no longer using the address to be displayed and to be identified.
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.
