FUCK.
Accidentally deleted my account from Damus.
Not fun.
Discussion
All data gone, it was pushed as an event. Relays, profile, followers and follows.
What does the delete button do exactly #[4]?
Wipes your kind0 and sets a deleted flag
How do publish something to revert it. I didn't see this on the NIPs, kinda confused.
I believe it was a feature requested by the Apple overlords, GDPR and stuff
Should be on a NIP.
Definitely shouldn’t. I don’t want to encourage this. I didn’t even want to implement it
You should implement a bug where the delete functionality doesn’t work and then never fix it lol
They look for bugs like this during review. Its annoying
Does it wipe our kind0 on all subscribed relays or only on Damus relay? And what is the flag that is set?
its wipes and sends to all relays and sets the deleted flag to true on the kind0
Don’t you have to type “DELETE” as a second step?
Yes. Thought was just deleting the PK from the app. Most wallets do that when you delete the seed.
That’s a shame, although Will has said in the past there’s a way of getting back if you reset the kind0 flag. Re followed
The claim is he clicked delete thinking it just removed the nsec from Damus so the assumption is he would keep his account intact. Then it turned out it had an effect across Nostr because of the information sent to relays but at that point he’s able to access his account and make modifications? Maybe I’m misunderstanding but the chronology doesn’t line up.
#[5]
What?
Well I found you again 😅
its not possible to delete followers as long as your pubkey is the same
Ooooooofffffffff
PSA: Do not click delete account in Damus settings. It will delete your entire nostr existence.
#[0]
😬🤦♂️
Wait, so the "delete" button does exactly what is was designed to do? Thanks for the PSA! 🤣
How the hell does that work? You have private keys but the whole house gets nuked? #[3] please help me understand
Not true
Did you back up your private key? With it you can restore your account anywhere as it’s impossible to delete Nostr accounts.
Perhaps this area needs to be renamed: “Danger Zone” in honour of #[4]
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Didn’t even know that was possible. Can you delete posts?
you can request deletion from relays using a signed request with your private key. most listen.
you won't lose any of your followers tho, since you have the same private key
he should loading his old private key in iris.to and seeing what happens. i bet he gets a lot back
It’s a camera trick. Other than his kind 0 metadata event everything else is still there. You can recover from this.
also, make a backup of your private key. if your're relying on a single app to store 100% of your identity, ngmi. just load it into a web app too or alby or something.
Shouldn’t it only delete you Damus existence? Like shouldn’t you be able to use you nsec on another client?
Mmm How? IThis is not a thing in nostr. If you have you private key backup you are fine, in Damus or whichever client.
🍻
Time to rebuild 🛠
Re-followed 🤙🏼
👀👀👀👇👇👇
#[0]
No worries we will share your details and soon all your previous followers will be informed.
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Welcome back from the dead.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Refollow #[1] #[0]
I’m sorry to here that brother. Refollowid
Looks like we can find relay operators and figure out how to recover. We can talk to him #[2]
#[2] It's not your fault!
Dang. That sucks. I know Iris.to allows you to do a backup of your entire profile in json format and then reupload it if ever needed.
I hope not 🤞
Damn. What if someone created a malicious client that published such an event.
Refollowided
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😱 #[0] #[2]
Welcome back!
#[2] Do you have a solution to this problem? I think you have some data .
what's up w NIP05 tho
GM everyone! Time to help!
#[0]
Just became your 69th new follower 🫡
Welcome 🤙
🚨🚨Important reminder🚨🚨
- Never share your "nsec".
- Do not click "Delete your account" on Damus.
#[0]
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Wait you mean I can go and delete my account to which I leaked my nSec for? 🤣
F
If I go to the old npub I still see the posts and your nip-05. It looks like this
refollowed!
Do you even #Bitcoin, #[1] ???
#[0]
Build back Better
Friendly reminder to back up your nsec to a safe place.
#[0]
Well, we all make mistakes. Amr?
Looks fishy from the beginning and still does.
#[1]
#[2]
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Your client and relays are confused… just check the npubs, they match
Npub on website is
e88a691e98d9987c964521dff60025f60700378a4879180dcbbb4a5027850411
I mean it's a 1 min job to update.
Now You need a cool npub.
How does damus even "delete your account" ??
Confirmed real NVK 🫡
Bruh 🥺
Yeah I was like deleted account wtf? Glad it’s you
Bro, you are not verified. SCAMER! 🤣💜
Confirmed myself this is actually NVK. Give him a refollow because that fkn sucks bro. #[0]
Where your nip-5?
Why only old npub listed on website?
Who r u? 🙂
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No backup? RIP
Refollowed!
#[2] bruh NVK deleted it
Bruh
His is NGMI
Welcome NVK. He is an enthusiastic bitcoin builder.
#[0]
🫂
Refollowed
Ohhh that sucks!!! This is why I used a private key from my LN node to generate pubkey login.
Makes it easy to swap platforms too 😁🍺
🤔#[3]
#[3]
Yeah, that sucks! ReFollowed and RePosted 🤙
how?
So how does Damus even "delete your account" ?
Does it actually submit delete events to all your relays or does it just forget your private key from its internal storage?
#[0]
Hahahahaha
This thing is powerful
Are you not entertained?
⚡️zap zap
Refollow #[0]
#[1]
Damn ... So sorry for you mate 😔!
Of course ... Refollowed 💜⚡️🤙
Feel free to follow me too 🤜🤛
It's a good reminder to not trust boomers around tech. Not even NVK. Aways verify.
Actors don't have to be malicious to fuck up.
Just in case you need, here is my confirmation of the npub remaining the same.
https://twitter.com/nvk/status/1631351106038120448
## What happened? @#[0]
The original DERP; I accidentally took the Damus "Delete Account" as sign out (ie Delete Private Key). Which I do have a backup so was not very concerned and did the deed.
(IIRC that's where the sign-out button use to be)
Damus to comply with Apple Store has to have a "delete account" method.
So how does Damus do it? AFAIK, it authors an empty (zeroing) of the Kind0 (profile data), clients rendered it as "nobody" and adds a "deleted account" flag. This means that until this is cleared from all relays and cache you can't login into the Damus app. But this zeroing out of the meta data does seem to cause relays and other clients confused. The contact list (follow/followers) seems to also have been zeroed in some relays.
- The followers seem to be all gone, which is not a big deal ppl who want just go and refollow me.
- For the following list, I just need to go look at an old contact list event and manually refollow ppl.
Because this is not documented as a NIP it's hard to know which relays or clients are honouring the Flag.
I think once the Kind0 of the profile is fully propagated the Damus should let me login again. Maybe there is a bug or IP block on Damus too, can't login with other "non-deleted" keys even after re-installing the app (TestFlight version)
...and then Client/Relays confusion should end.
Going to take a walk... BRB
how the heck could followers be gone? maybe in damus, but for sure i saw all your posts, including old ones
Dunno, still curious.
Are you running your own relay? Would that have made a difference in your data?
My relay is kinda broken rn, so I don't have visibility to the raw events as I normally would
Does this mean that you're going to delete #[3] now? 🤣
Bummer. Shows how hard it is to manage private keys.
no. no private keys were harmed. undocumented client behaviour and user error.
So question, because now I’m terrified. If you click “delete account” is it automatic at that point or is there a window that pops up and asks “Are you sure you want to delete”?
Now everyone I see the Delete Account button I’m worried I’ll accidentally click it! 🤣🤣🤣
don't you have a secondary device to keep the nsec backed on? Like old phone, laptop, an USB pen, piece of paper...
I have the nsec backed up. But I don’t think that was NVK’s issue. Or was it?!
This should answer some questions
https://damus.io/note1kvjll9qqevz04gcufkkvp8y57l8dwjcl3zft0aa2eyhztpu595lqrd04z4
That’s a relief!
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Going to need proof of sauna to confirm this isn’t a compromised key pair
fucking apple!
Accidentally deleted your bitcoin keys. 😂
See, it could be worse.
Thanks to NIP-05 moving to a new key is feasible.
😅🤣
😂
Paranoia
Just watched a video where you said you can't delete your stuff on nostr. 😂
You censored yourself.
Can I be in the screenshot? 🤣
Glad you're back without a new npub!
Welcome to our world 🥴
