Nostr Web Client

What if instead of only allow people to use a private key for login / registration, we had a Sign Up / sign in with Google and upon doing that, a key pair is generated for you and emailed to address. You would still have a nostr npub / nsec, but it would automatically back up for you. The user recognizes the social login, and it’s easier to populate information from that option. It would be like a hybrid mode where you keep the old sign up process but on the front end it’s all nostr. Perhaps then you could use that connection to integrate with other traditional services, perhaps with a database attached. So it would be like nostr, but with a benefit of a light database for some efficiency and integrations with minimal info collected.

Dumb idea? Defeats the entire purpose? Thoughts?

Aron 2y ago

Was thinking about that some months agoo

at the end wallet of satoshi works by email, (of course you are not trusting with a lot of money) but it's only a simple email not the whole cloud stores thing..

nostr key are very simple to generate and store 🤔 actually making it super interesting as a first impact for someone new !

I mean the first impression of " I am the one owning what i post here" will go disappearing ( for that kind of users).

Nostr could grow by some clients using this ( that will also lock user in THAT client, since property log in connection).

But it will not spread the nostr protocol meaning.

New user simply won't get what is this about and will be set apart.

I'm late at work for writing this 🙃 🤣

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Lucky Kite 2y ago

Agree. Nostr key is a way easier/simple concept for people to grasp than bitcoin key management. Its not as simple to understand as a google login but no more effort to do. People have to learn new things in life. They will if they are guided properly. Big tech making things addictive convenient is what created the need for Nostr in the first place. You can have security or convenience but you can't have both..