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@Derek Ross 1674922941

I really don't know what to do here about my profile being updated without me updating it. I assume my key is burnt somehow? Or is it some client that did something?

My private key was generated and used on astral.ninja for a day, entered into and used on damus.io/web for less than 10 minutes, entered into Amethyst and Daisy. Everything else has been via the nos2x extension.

I know this most likely doesn't mean anything, but the very first day that my LN address was updated was the same day that I tried Amethyst for the very first time, downloading the APK from Vitor's GitHub. I used a burner account at first then switched to my main account after a while.

Looking at the original relays that were seeing updates to my profile metadata, they weren't relays that I used. This leads me to believe the key is burnt?

I have over 3K followers and have worked really hard at that. I would have to have to start over. I really don't want to do that. It would essentially erase the last 6 weeks of doing nothing but living, breathing, and sleeping my desktop and phone.

Feeling lots of emotions right now.

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Tony 🥩 ⚡ · 178w

I've been hesitant to try out any mobile apps because I don't have a good way yet to manage the key outside of that app. I think NIP26 should solve that issue, but I need to understand it a bit better and a client to allow it to be used on.

StacknSats87 · 178w

That is worrying. What change was made to your profile?

Keith Mukai · 178w

Amethyst displayed my LN Address field as blank, even though I'd set it previously in Damus. But it wasn't replaced with anything fishy. I set it again in Amethyst. Presumably it's good now. Snort is showing it as expected.

KP 🧡⚡️ · 178w

Publish your new pub. Folks who matter will follow back. Over a long time horizon those numbers mean nothing IMO. Having fun does! 😅

nostrich · 178w

Have you checked if the wrong lightning address was used by another account? It could be that your metadata were mixed up with some random account due to a bug in a client.

KAB 13% · 178w

Similar thing happened to me. Started out using astral.ninja with alby extension. I tried the snort.social client and used my alby extension to log in. When I went back to astral I had to refollow everybody. I`m no techie at all, just my observation. But I was only dealing with small numbers so ...

This about the LUD06 entry? you know it's pointing to your wallet right? So it's probably some client is expanding your LN address into the LUD06 field

btcmaxi · 178w

Sorry to hear this man! But if you do make another pub key; we will follow you 🤙 I’d like some cold wallet integration or Yubikey for the private key to be honest.

Matthew Bennett · 178w

There's no way around this unless you tie the key or the social graph to some other kind of 2FA or 3FA with an email or a phone number or another key (??) or X.

Leo Fernevak · 178w

Sorry to hear. Over time I think there needs to be improved approaches to security. We must wrestle intimately with problems in order to understand them properly, which takes time and consideration. The approach to log in with a single private key will cause some acxounts to be compromized over time...

Max Trotter · 178w

so maybe a leaked via Amethyst or Daisy - can anyone confirm - currently I have a test ac on Amethyst - created key securely and entered by hand into Amethyst on android - downloaded via playstore on smasung galaxy phone

Lightning Koala 🟣 · 178w

#[1] perhaps try sticking to 1 client for a week, see if anything changes, then add another client step by step to root our the culprit if it's a client misbehaving?

RABBINSTEIN · 178w

Happened to me too, lost my whole Follow lis.. I assume it has something todo with me fucking around with bunch of different clients. Luckily Snort has Follow All button, so I just easily refollow everyone.

The Grape · 178w

We need a better way of managing keys other than typing it into a textfield

Fernando Bittencourt · 178w

This happened to me some time ago. From profile data reverts to old data. I noticed that it was a relay that didn't receive the update msg and it was in my list of relays in the client. In your case, it could be some client or relay that has old information or some client with a bug that you sen...

moonsettler · 178w

"I have over 3K followers and have worked really hard at that. I would have to have to start over. I really don't want to do that. It would essentially erase the last 6 weeks of doing nothing but living, breathing, and sleeping my desktop and phone. Feeling lots of emotions right now." we are lear...