FUCK.
Accidentally deleted my account from Damus.
Not fun.
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Looks fishy from the beginning and still does.
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How does damus even "delete your account" ??
Confirmed real NVK π«‘
Bruh π₯Ί
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? π
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No backup? RIP
Refollowed!
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 ππΊ
Yeah, that sucks! ReFollowed and RePosted π€
Welcome back #[0]β! Make sure yaβll refollow him. β‘οΈβ‘οΈβ‘οΈ
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Save your key this time bro
-Amanda Wolf, Executive Assistant at Nostr
I bet he knows a guy...
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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?
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AFAIK it forgets your private key and updates your account metadata to β@nobodyβ and βaccount deletedβ
Having a hard time understanding a deleted account of you have your nsec written down.
Hahahahaha
This thing is powerful
Are you not entertained?
Didn't know you could delete it.
This is news to me as well.
You must in order to be accepted to the Appstore. That was one reason for the inital rejects.
But what happens to it on other nostr protocols? its still there yes?

π. Nice to see someone technically minded can fuck up too
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Damn ... So sorry for you mate π!
Of course ... Refollowed πβ‘οΈπ€
Feel free to follow me too π€π€
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
Thanks for testing out the damus account deletion process for everyone! π
It is my pleasure(not)
how the heck could followers be gone? maybe in damus, but for sure i saw all your posts, including old ones
Are you running your own relay? Would that have made a difference in your data?
you still have 3263 Followers. so i maybe only damus shows the lower number
My relay is kinda broken rn, so I don't have visibility to the raw events as I normally would
Dunno, still curious.
Does this mean that you're going to delete #[3] now? π€£
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 Iβm terrified. If you click βdelete accountβ is it automatic at that point or is there a window that pops up and asks βAre you sure you want to deleteβ?
Now everyone I see the Delete Account button Iβm worried Iβll accidentally click it! π€£π€£π€£
Thatβs a relief!
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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 donβt think that was NVKβs issue. Or was it?!
This should answer some questions


Damus
NVK on nostr
Just in case you need, here is my confirmation of the npub remai
Going to need proof of sauna to confirm this isnβt a compromised key pair
fucking apple!
Welcome back!
Accidentally deleted your bitcoin keys. π
See, it could be worse.
Thanks to NIP-05 moving to a new key is feasible.
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LOL still think Apple is the best?
What is the post mortem on this?
Delete account was one of Appleβs App Store approval conditions?
lmao rekt ππ€£
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#NostrRekt
oops
metoo
How?
Donβt you have the keys backed up somewhere? Guess not?
Just watched a video where you said you can't delete your stuff on nostr. π
You censored yourself.
Follow NVK again
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Can I be in the screenshot? π€£
Glad you're back without a new npub!
We can all make mistakes π₯Ή


