Nostr Web Client

This is definitely a weak point of WOT, once it's infiltrated you have to get rid of the attacker another way. We've actually had "petnames" for as long as I've been around, the problem with them is people aren't likely to assign them unless people's own names are confusing to them. Adding petnames publicly also has some privacy implications which would make them hard to share.

Judge Hardcase 6mo ago

The privacy issue hadn't occurred to me; but, I see now how someone could inadvertently (or intentionally) dox you through your "petname"... that could be a problem.

As far as usage goes, maybe the standard client action could be to populate the nickname to match the display name at the time of being added to a follow list... if that nickname never got changed from that point on, so be it.

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hodlbod 6mo ago

Some clients do this, it's not a bad idea

Mike Dilger ☑️ 6mo ago

Gossip client lets you override somebody's name with a petname, and puts a special symbol next to their name if you did that. Pet names were supposed to be a distributed naming web where you would refer to somebody through somebody else's petname: JudgeHardcase.hodlbod would be the person that hodlbod calls "JudgeHardcase". But I never coded anything like that.