I am once again asking Nostr to stop using nip5 as some sort of identifier - it’s not. Use a following icon like Damus for example.

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I like how Amethyst puts my follows at the top. Or at least it seems to. I've never noticed a problem until this. I like the idea of an explicit icon though.

Amethyst also does it nicely with a purple icon overlay that's very clearly part of the Amethyst interface and not inside a text field.

That said nostrudel still my web client and I don't mind being careful about the rare tag of an account.

About a year ago I proposed attestations on the NIP-05 level. Essentially a web of trust between identity providers. It was pretty cumbersome, but I think this just more refined will be the way. Big NIP-05 providers with thousands of users without any type of rules or vetting process are making the originally great idea into rubbish. https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/pull/1210

This is one of the serious issues with Nostr for non technical people.

How to tell which accounts are real and which are bots without individually checking them. It'll definitely be an issue as more people join