I see a bunch of ephemeral keys leaving likes on posts recently...
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Same
About 20k ephemeral keys followed me in the last month
same
And Amethyst only shows notifications if there is a profile note?
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what's an ephemeral key?
A regular private / public key pair, but it's only used to sign a single event, and does not build up reputation, so it's basically a unique one time identity.
For example, your private key signed your profile note (with name, picture, description etc), as well as the note with your reply here, so I know which entity actually responded.
Whereas an ephemeral key is anonymous, I have no clue who liked this post, if it's just one or multiple entities.
Anonymity is beautiful.
Your message is resonating with a lot of people.
Added to the https://nostraco.in/hot feed
Time to activate web of trust filtering
I've just got 100+ Followers that clearly are not real. I should be able to remove them from following me or block them, it's bullshit