There’s no way to utilize nip5 for any sort of verification. For it to be useful, you have to know people’s nostr address. Scammers can register a free one and still look legit to someone who has no idea what that person’s actual nostr address is.
I think Nostur has the best solution in place with impersonator tag
I know it is for identification, except for rare cases, in fact few weeks ago I updated NIP-05 to clarify that.
And that is precisely why there is no point in showing it everywhere, especially if it is invalid. The point is to simplify the interface (I know, I won you over here, haha) and avoid exposing a detail that is unnecessary and may indeed be confusing.
Intead in the profile, with a proper explanation, it can be useful to debug misconfigurations or have a clearer idea about what the profile is trying to do.
What is this impersonator tag?
Interesting approach, but it seems resource intensive (calculate images hashes or similarities for all the social graph is heavy) and I suspect it can be quite fragile. Probably WoT is quicker and safer. Btw, NIP-05 is not involved here, even if it can be used to compose the final score.
This was before wot
Yup, it needs to be remembered and known. That is why I think it is a good idea to be able to verify an account user metadata, name, nip05, website and etc. Verified values can be recorded via an attestation event/note that could be private or public. I've drafted up a wireframe of this and NIP on how it could work.
Here is the mentioned animated wireframe of how what I described could work:
And NIP text:
Interesting. Probably the attestation can happen as optional step after following the user, and be included in the follow list (kind 2). This would make the adoption easier.
Sure!
Perhaps as well, private attestations could be made with a follow for just the name and profile image, as a starting point.
That's what Raymon tells since months...
