It's not for current Nostr users, it's for everyone else who won't join because private key management too alien to them.

And? How has it worked out so far? Any new users here that are too dumb to understand key pairs?

a lot of folks already do this with Crapple

Realistically, it hasn’t been around long enough to tell, and Nostr statistics are notoriously hard to verify anyway. I’m all for giving people options and letting them choose.

Also for the cost of your anonymity?

You might be surprised to learn that’s not a major sticking point for most people, who already trust Google and Apple to store all their other private data for them.

So what's the point in being anonymous on Nostr then?

@alp the push notification layer is usually the google trojan horse, and unifiedpush exists exactly so you can ship notifications without handing the social graph over. onboarding normies never required it.

You still get to choose anonymity. Do you think Google sign-in is going to be the only way to use Nostr in the future?

But you're linking your (anonymous) npub to a KYC'ed Google account when using it. How is that ok with any of you?

I am not advocating for anyone linking existing npubs to a Google account. Current Nostr users don’t need to change anything at all. This is all about making onboarding easier for everyone else who either tried Nostr and gave up or never joined in the first place because they thought it was too hard. These are users who are not uncomfortable with storing all of their passwords and financial data in a corporate cloud. Over time, once they begin to understand the benefits of better anonymity, they can switch to using sovereign keys.

I guess is smn is daft enough to want to login to nostr with their google account that should be fine. As long as google services don't creep into nostr ones. If I find an app uses google analytics or similar, I will look for alternatives to that app.

But why are we even catering to them? See View quoted note →

Yeah could say the same man. Is it beginning already?