FUCK.
Accidentally deleted my account from Damus.
Not fun.
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I believe it was a feature requested by the Apple overlords, GDPR and stuff
its wipes and sends to all relays and sets the deleted flag to true on the kind0
Clearly not just the pk from the app lol
Not true
What?
You have to type in DELETE and tap Delete on Damus
This is suspicious af.
Oof. So to revert this you’d have to have a backup of your events, post a new kind 0 event with updated metadata and then rebroadcast the events?
I hope not 🤞
nostril —envelope —kind 0 —content ‘{}’ —sec hexkey | nostcat allrelays…
Did you back up your private key? With it you can restore your account anywhere as it’s impossible to delete Nostr accounts.
Damn. What if someone created a malicious client that published such an event.
Pretty sure it does not touch your contact list…
Welcome back!
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It doesn’t touch anything other than kind0 and it doesn’t send any delete notes
Should be on a NIP.
Definitely shouldn’t. I don’t want to encourage this. I didn’t even want to implement it
Haven't looked deeper, but looks like follow/followers was zeroed.
They look for bugs like this during review. Its annoying
🚨🚨Important reminder🚨🚨
- Never share your "nsec".
- Do not click "Delete your account" on Damus.
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Well I found you again 😅
Wait you mean I can go and delete my account to which I leaked my nSec for? 🤣
F
Prob needs documentation. If I knew this was possible wouldn't have assumed just key deletion.
If I go to the old npub I still see the posts and your nip-05. It looks like this
Do you even #Bitcoin, #[1] ???
#[0]
Tweet something at all nostr related to confirm?
Well, we all make mistakes. Amr?
Or NIP5 this npub to an NVK domain?
The delete button is to close to clear cache. It should be put below the version of the app and preferably with a second warning 'are you sure you want to delete' #[2]
Followed you back #[1] 🫡
You should be able to NIP5
Looks fishy from the beginning and still does.
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How does damus even "delete your account" ??
He didn’t @ the note either…🤔👀
Confirmed real NVK 🫡
Bruh 🥺
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? 🙂
Good testing everyone, onwards.
Npub on website is
e88a691e98d9987c964521dff60025f60700378a4879180dcbbb4a5027850411
I mean it's a 1 min job to update.
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Ooooooofffffffff
No backup? RIP
Refollowed!
Monkey pox balls….😂🤣😂🤣
🤘😂🤘
Verified via Twitter
Welcome NVK. He is an enthusiastic bitcoin builder.
#[0]
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hmmm, the hex should be
8ab235fe03e4efa7bf01babbca5210de7eac01aba6e630993d9b684c5eb3d84e
but it still showing the hex from the old npub
e88a691e98d9987c964521dff60025f60700378a4879180dcbbb4a5027850411
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 😁🍺
client's seem confused about the Delete event Damus produced
can he recover from this?
🤔#[3]
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Yeah, that sucks! ReFollowed and RePosted 🤙
yes, just need a tool to reset the profile
Welcome back #[0]! Make sure ya’ll refollow him. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
#[1]
Done
Save your key this time bro
-Amanda Wolf, Executive Assistant at Nostr
The what’s the purpose of the delete action if it can be undone?
I don’t see anything about this on his Twitter
DM’d
I bet he knows a guy...
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how?
Apple's requirement to accept Damus in the Store.
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 “@nobody” and “account deleted”
Having a hard time understanding a deleted account of you have your nsec written down.
Hahahahaha
This thing is powerful
Are you not entertained?
There's no followers list in nostr, just follows list where your npub appears.
Mmm How? IThis is not a thing in nostr. If you have you private key backup you are fine, in Damus or whichever client.
Didn't know you could delete it.
This is news to me as well.
Yeah, I’m confused how this happens lol
thought it was in de blockchain
😂. Nice to see someone technically minded can fuck up too
⚡️zap zap
Refollow #[0]
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You must in order to be accepted to the Appstore. That was one reason for the inital rejects.
Damn ... So sorry for you mate 😔!
Of course ... Refollowed 💜⚡️🤙
Feel free to follow me too 🤜🤛
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So true
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! 💜
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.
Welcome back!
Does this mean that you're going to delete #[3] now? 🤣
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 I’m terrified. If you click “delete account” is it automatic at that point or is there a window that pops up and asks “Are you sure you want to delete”?
Now everyone I see the Delete Account button I’m worried I’ll accidentally click it! 🤣🤣🤣
That’s a relief!
Accidentally deleted your bitcoin keys. 😂
See, it could be worse.
Thanks to NIP-05 moving to a new key is feasible.
We are so early.
😅🤣
![Buy Bitcoin [uDevNull]'s avatar](https://udevnull.com/images/owl-ball-so-hard-profile.jpg)
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LOL still think Apple is the best?
What is the post mortem on this?
oops
metoo
Delete account was one of Apple’s App Store approval conditions?
How?
Don’t you have the keys backed up somewhere? Guess not?
lmao rekt 😂🤣
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#NostrRekt
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Paranoia
But what happens to it on other nostr protocols? its still there yes?
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 don’t think that was NVK’s 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 isn’t a compromised key pair
Perhaps this area needs to be renamed: “Danger Zone” in honour of #[4]
Just watched a video where you said you can't delete your stuff on nostr. 😂
You censored yourself.
Follow NVK again
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fucking apple!
Can I be in the screenshot? 🤣
Glad you're back without a new npub!
We can all make mistakes 🥹
Welcome to our world 🥴
Boosted 🫂
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