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They say technology can't solve social problems. But they are wrong. While it's true technology can't change people's hearts, it can certainly influence how people behave. It's possible to design technology so it promotes good outcomes. You do this by balancing the trade-offs until its negative qualities actually support the thing you're trying to build. Then the design in harmony.

@alex Can you still describe it as negative quality then? Could you give a specific example of what you have in mind?

@raucao Premise: "Your account identity is a private key."

Point: "Because your identity is a private key, it can get lost or stolen, and you will permanently lose access to your account."

Counterpoint 1: "Because your account can get permanently lost or stolen, we will build identity services, hardware wallets, and remote signers. Each of these will also solve a different, unrelated problem."

Counterpoint 2: "Because your identity is a private key, users can easily send encrypted direct messages."

Counterpoint 3: "Because your identity can get permanently lost or stolen, people will be more cautious, which will promote healthy skepticism."

@alex @raucao Geez! Sounds like you’re trying to convince us to ditch #Nostr

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@raucao @alex The 1st and 3rd counterpoints further illustrates how bad loosing your key is LOL, The same key controls your wallets. Not just social media

@tournelhenry Wallets are very different from identity. You wouldn't want to lose your identity when you lose a wallet. A wallet is just a temporary store of value tokens.

However, I never said that Nostr's simplistic design should prevent you from using it. It still has benefits over protocols where domain admins have all the control. Just don't ignore the drawbacks, and push for improvements while it's young, before considerable flaws become permanent.

@tournelhenry (And if you're talking about life savings, then multi-sig wallets allow you to lose a key and still move the funds to a new safe haven, btw.)

@raucao As dumb as this sounds, I only just realised what “Multi-Sig” means after reading this thread. As obvious as the name already sounds 😂