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Designers, we need your help.

Amethyst uses 3 "verification" symbols and they all resemble Twitter's with a different color. I'd like to move away from Twitter's symbol and increase their effectiveness in communicating what they trully mean without any other explainer in the UI.

The 3 symbols are:

1. The "you follow this person" verification symbol in the top-right corner or every profile picture. This helps people identify impersonators easily.

2. NIP-05 "verification" icon as the @ on their email address in 3 states: verifying (yellow), verified (blue) and failed verification (red). Failed verification should be a big red flag that something is wrong with this account and might be potentially hacked.

3. The hash verification for NIP-94 and NIP-95 images and videos. This means the image that was downloaded to the phone is exactly the same as the image uploaded by the author.

Please send ideas for the 3 icons. Anything helps.
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MarcG 2y ago

1. Should not be a checkmark. It should be a follow symbol.

2. Should be a simple checkmark. Either checked , or x'd. It only means verified-probably-human.

3. Skip this.

Thx, for helping to clarify, but verification does not mean here what it was originally meant on Twitter. ( Ie real world identity). ONLY the verified email can do that now for npubs.

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

Not even verified email mean the same thing. That's why we want to move away from it :)

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MarcG 2y ago

I'm not sure what you mean?

A verified email address of: Keith@seedsigner.com means it's IS the real Keith. Michael@saylor.org IS Saylor.

But MarcG@getably.com - well, that's just a nym. But obviously so. It's still me tho.

Maybe the term 'verified' is the problem here? Because I only have a nym: I'm not verified, I'm not identified, I'm just 98%&proved human. Based on who follows me is the only way now to tell that I am probably 'that guy/ that Marc. '

Verified is now maybe an idea of old, whose time has come to pass.

Idk, but I think so.

M

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Vitor Pamplona 2y ago

In nostr, it just means that the PubKey controls that user@domain. It doesn't mean that anyone verified if the person is real. The verification itself is up to the user.

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Clockwerk 2y ago

Seconding this

Dump follow button for this icon next to people. When you have followed- is becomes a color. Save alot of screen space for other stuff and self explanatory.

2 and 3 should be small colored dots