Would be cool if clients started showing a "on Nostr since 773,424" which would then let us know which account came first.
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Great idea in the short term, probably unworkable in the long term with how easy it is to spin up new keys - 1/2/3 years from now accounts created in the past could be switched over to spoof newer entrants so only really works for existing Nostriches
Good point indeed. With the Nostur client it shows a "previously known as" once a user changes their name. Would be nice if there was a historical record stored on relays that could be inspected at a later date. Might help with poaching older keypairs for spoofing dates, if it can be seen that the name change came afterwards.
Some folks are mad that #noStrudel has added a colored border around people's avatars. I really like this idea. My only concern is each person's display color profile might be different, resulting in people thinking someone's colored border is a different shade of the color than it really is and then get freaked out when they access noStrudel from a different device and see a different colored border than they're expecting.
Otherwise, I don't think my concern is that big of a worry and using the first 6 characters of the hex key to derive a color code is a pretty cool way to try and combat impostors. Well done nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr
And I still hope all clients one day try this idea or show a "first active" profile data like nostr.band site or a "previously known as" like Nostur, as additional means to identify impostors.
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I had this in damus as the key color and people kept asking what the color meant and I eventually just removed it for my sanity 😆
Now that you mention it, I do remember that! It'd be nice to add it back imo, but maybe with a guided tour of Damus at onboarding that highlights specific elements of a user's profile and tooltip tells them what it means?