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8ab23 - 3y

FUCK. Accidentally deleted my account from Damus. Not fun.

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8ab23 - 3y

All data gone, it was pushed as an event. Relays, profile, followers and follows.

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ODELL @ODELL - 3y

PSA: Do not click delete account in Damus settings. It will delete your entire nostr existence. #[0]

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8ab23 - 3y

It clearly was not the logout button :/

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44996 - 3y

Time to rebuild 🛠

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24f24 - 3y

Re-followed 🤙🏼

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SKITOSHI @SKI - 3y

Thought this was a joke 😬😬 lol

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738f6 - 3y

No worries we will share your details and soon all your previous followers will be informed.

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0xtr @0xtr - 3y

What does the delete button do exactly #[4]​?

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db506 - 3y

😬🤦‍♂️

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b22f0 - 3y

😳

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173ff - 3y

Deletes

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056d6 - 3y

I can’t find the note but #[5]​ told someone to revert it through the console before

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jb55 @jb55 - 3y

Wipes your kind0 and sets a deleted flag

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5be64 - 3y

Damn... I wonder if there's any relays it is still on, could download and republish everywhere. I didn't realize there were any delete requests in this protocol...

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0bb45 - 3y

Welcome back from the dead.

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c47c2 - 3y

How the hell does that work? You have private keys but the whole house gets nuked? #[3]​ please help me understand

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Avi Burra @AviBurra - 3y

Don’t you have to type “DELETE” as a second step?

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8ab23 - 3y

How do publish something to revert it. I didn't see this on the NIPs, kinda confused.

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Zach Weissmueller @Weissmueller - 3y

Yikes. Live and learn. Thanks for learning it so I didn't have to.

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Kman @Kman - 3y

You can recover your follow list by following these steps: #[2]

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

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

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18730 - 3y

Thanks for testing out the damus account deletion process for everyone! 💜

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

It is my pleasure(not)

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3ef72 - 3y

how the heck could followers be gone? maybe in damus, but for sure i saw all your posts, including old ones

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Lauren of Light ☀️ @lauren - 3y

Are you running your own relay? Would that have made a difference in your data?

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

My relay is kinda broken rn, so I don't have visibility to the raw events as I normally would

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

Dunno, still curious.

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Michael Matulef @Michael Matulef - 3y

Does this mean that you're going to delete #[3] now? 🤣

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06b78 - 3y

Bummer. Shows how hard it is to manage private keys.

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

no. no private keys were harmed. undocumented client behaviour and user error.

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

#[1] pushed a updated kind0 to as far as I could, I think most relays have seen it. Still can't login. Odd enough can't login even from unrelated pk. Some server cashing IPs or device ID? (using latest from TestFlight)

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c1fe5 - 3y

✔️

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jb55 @jb55 - 3y

I’ve heard people report the same thing and it makes no sense to me… will debug

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

Merci.

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jack @jack - 3y

May at least want a few more confirmations when pressing that button?

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7560e - 3y

Are you this sure???

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ecda3 - 3y

And then, “are you sure you’re this sure?”

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c02be - 3y

And push a Pop up warning that says “Deleted account is not recoverable”

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eric @eric - 3y

People normally complain how hard it is to delete their social media account. On nostr it’s the opposite.

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0bdea - 3y

Profile > Settings > Delete account > all caps > Type DELETE > delete Not something that can be done accidentally

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corndalorian @corndalorian - 3y

He posted this a little bit ago here #[4]

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056d6 - 3y

So the other account wasn’t him?

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

To be fair, It does make you type "DELETE". Maybe extra confirm with a full red screen LOL. But I'm not sure I like the idea of an app authoring a event in my name like that, specially not being a NIP or documented. I think a NIP to handle "account self deletion" to comply with GDPR might be worth doing, if anything because it could describe how to un-delete the account. All these will be very client/relay specific on how it gets enforced, so would be nice to have a way to unlock yourself out of this hole.

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NVK 🌞⚡️ @NVK - 3y

Update. Login working again.

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jack @jack - 3y

Wait…you hit delete and typed DELETE and it was still an accident? brb sending you all my bitcoin for safekeeping

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33eec - 3y

💀

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b0dba - 3y

What does Delete mean to you?

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