Badges are cool, but also useless to me since they are way easier to make and collect than domains.
This isn't an either/or. It is a both/and.
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Collecting identities seems odd. Are there any examples where someone would collect different identities on another platform that you have as an example?
Some users want a different id for social, gaming, Pinterest and other utilities because they desire different personal brands, but also users may want nip-05 providers with the same name due to add on features of the registrars that extend their use cases across their interactions on nostr.
We could further limit it down to 10 to 25 aliases in the spec by 100 allows for the network to grow an additional use cases to be invented. I donโt really care if itโs 1025 or 100. I would like to see the ability for users to have the utility along with the providers to have a path to not needing them to use it as a primary identifier on their profile if they desire a specific aesthetic as a user.
Another use case is that if you own or run Multiple Companies, you may want to have a nip identifier for each of the domains related to those companies. Letโs say for your registrar and five other projects that you run, you may want to have the same short name at multiple domains to identify that youโre a good actor for each of those services
Collecting identities is odd . . . to you.
To me, this gives people or groups more options with a simple, ignorable if you don't want to support it, array.
I could say that using one identity across all your stuff is actually, as far as I'm concerned, wet dream of the snoopers charter fans. ๐
Yes. You can collect a decent amount of metadata and use that to corelate an identity, though. That's hard to defend against. But... I am still a fan of various identity for various uses.
I want a verified account that verifies my upcoming nostr portal, nostr gaming project, future podcast, personal website, and other projects I am affiliated with in one npub.
It can show more of a trust across them and unifies the account as I wish. I could do individual accounts as the root domains and brand, but my administration account can be unified.