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Question for Nostr devs:
I’m trying to understand whether a traditional private account model can be built on Nostr using encrypted groups (NIP-EE). I know a lot of people who enjoy using their real name, but not broadcasting everything publicly.
Idea:
When you “follow” someone, the client is really adding you to one of that user’s encrypted follower-circles. But their posts to that circle appear in your feed; the client just makes the group a feed to mimic the pattern we're used to. Users never see “groups”; they just see a normal follow/feed UI.
Is this even possible?
Example:
A follows B. B follows C & D, but only D follows B back.
A should see only what B shares with followers, not everything B sees from C & D.
No idea if this could actually be implemented
Published at
2025-12-10 15:44:19 UTCEvent JSON
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