@noracodes oh, I emphatically agree — I signed up for nostr because it seems like a super-technically cool idea, but I think there's 0% chance anyone ever uses it

I do think a potential in-between model is something like a "jurisdictionally federated" model where your local government issues you a smart card (see Belgium's eID), but especially in the current US political climate that seems terrifying

@noracodes I originally wrote "fetishizing", actually, because I feel like nostr really loves to talk about cryptographic keys a lot and put them in the front of everything.

@noracodes Idolizing self-managed cryptographic keys is basically the idea behind nostr, right? Which is exclusively used by cryptobros...