Proposal: Three new kind-0 metadata fields — status, partner, kin

[dankswoops]

I'd like to propose three new optional fields for kind-0 user metadata: status, partner, and kin.

status (integer, 0-7) — A standardized relationship status. 0 is unspecified, 1-7 map to Single, In a relationship, Engaged, Married, Divorced, Widowed, and Open relationship. Integers enable localization across languages.

partner (string array) — An array of hex public keys identifying partners. The first entry is the primary partner. Clients render as many as their UI supports.

kin (array of [pubkey, type] tuples) — Family connections with an optional relationship type integer (0-12) covering parent, child, sibling, grandparent, cousin, in-law, etc. Uniform tuple format for consistent parsing across all languages.

All fields are optional, public (same as all kind-0 data), and use hex pubkeys to align with the protocol's native key format. Clients that don't recognize these fields ignore them per existing conventions.

The full proposal with JSON examples, design rationale, a comparison to NIP-81 (PR #761), and relay size analysis is here:

https://github.com/dankswoops/proposals/tree/main/nostr-kind0-metadata

Looking for feedback on the field definitions, integer ranges, and whether this overlaps with anything in progress. Happy to adjust based on community input before drafting a formal NIP.

[staab]

I would suggest creating a new kind 1xxxx for this, the more stuff we cram into kind 0 the more contention over writes and bloat there is clients have to download.

[fiatjaf]

A new kind between 10000 and 19999 is the way.

[kehiy]

A new kind that let's you to publish in encrypted will be better. I can't understand why someone need to put these stuff on their profile.

[pablof7z]

A new kind that let's you to publish in encrypted will be better. I can't understand why someone need to put these stuff on their profile.

wouldn't that defeat the purpose? you're putting all that so others know about it -- facebook does that too where you can say who your family is in their graph

[sondreb]

I like the idea of kin and partner, can build a family tree from the data. I'm not going to use it myself, but I'm sure many users want to do this.

Obviously not put it in kind 0.