I use a simple color scheme to "link" users and accounts, it takes the first 6 chars non-zero to form the hex color, so an impersonator would not have the same color and would probably be spotted right away. I can identify a bunch of pubkeys just by their color now.
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Brilliant. I'm stealing that idea.
I do the same in damus ios dark mode, except I use the tail of the hex pubkey. I also show an icon next to their name if they are friends, friend-of-a-friend, and no icon if they are not followed by anyone I know.
I this can be exploited though.
yeah but they'd have to exploit everything else first also.. I want to expand this by creating a gradient from multiple colors taken from the key, but I haven't started playing with that..