Anybody on top of fake jacks? Noobs will not know that the name is nothing in nostr.

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How can they be handled?

So far it would happen very publicly if somebody went to DM users with a fake jack account but still, who would do something about it? Teach people to not trust names I guess.

add the last 8 of the string ( jack 1234 5678) to the name, like a PGP key ID

“jack 3q0u f63m”

Then you verify they match ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

8 I think is easy to brute force and ugly.

I want my client to show which are my follows and warn me of jacks that I don't follow or that are not followed by my follows etc.

Fakes will quickly become an issue. Everyone, especially influencers, coming over from Twitter should be encouraged to post to https://www.nostr.directory and check the directory before following ppl.