Yes, not being able to delete or close an "account" is somet...

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Yes, not being able to delete or close an "account" is something that scares people away. Once you've explained the fundamentals, people understand that their notes are basically outside their control once they've posted them. In a way, this is not all that different from legacy social media, blogs etc, but many people have not fully internalized that fact in the legacy case. They take comfort in traditional platforms having "privacy settings" or "delete account" buttons that create a sense of having some degree of control. Nostr cannot honestly promise deletion of content even within the ecosystem of servers that participate in the protocol. And with Nostr there are digital signatures, and people intuitively understand that these connect a piece of content to their identity permanently. Nostr exposes the public and loss-of-control aspects of posting on the internet with a directness that is a bit too much for many people.

I think the best solution to this is to acknowledge that Nostr is not appropriate for users who want to create content that they ultimately may not want to stand by (maybe with the exception of "anonymous" content that isn't tied to any real-world identity in the first place). Nostr is, however, appropriate for people who are already committed to (and have the nerve for) having a truly public persona. Wider adoption of Nostr has to start with an avant-garde of such people, and others are then likely to follow along, to whatever extent they they are comfortable, learning to separate content that is appropriate for digital signing from other content that they intend to be untethered to their identity and more ephemeral.

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