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This is definitely a weak point of WOT, once it's infiltrated you have to get rid of the attacker another way. We've actually had "petnames" for as long as I've been around, the problem with them is people aren't likely to assign them unless people's own names are confusing to them. Adding petnames publicly also has some privacy implications which would make them hard to share.
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Judge Hardcase 6mo ago

Regarding the privacy issue, this might be a stupid idea, so I won't hold it against you if you just ignore it. 😉

When I choose to follow someone, add a nickname initially populated with that user's display name - but encrypted by my nPub (requiring my nsec to decrypt). Then, clients could indicate to me when the encrypted version of that user's display name no longer matches the saved nickname... and, if I wanted, I could choose to have the nickname updated to stay current with the new encrypted version of that user's display name. (though maybe simply 'saved_name' would be a more accurate description than either 'nickname' or 'petname').

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Judge Hardcase 6mo ago

... or maybe even just save some sort of hash of the display name so that a change can easily be detected (and subsequently update the saved hash if and when I verify it's okay to do so).