Nah, NIP-05 works fine, but the user has to know what the NIP-05 SHOULD be before they can verify the correct account.
My NIP-05 is dikaios1517@nostrplebs.com, but any rando could go out and register nostrrplebs.com and create their own NIP-05s to impersonate anyone currently registered with nostrplebs.com
Anyone who isn't paying attention and just sees the check mark might be duped.
Got you thanks. I remember WOT being used for Freenet private network where a public domain would not be something one wanted to publish. Makes sense now. Adding a layer of TRUST
That's the problem with Nostr -> not so simple and userfriendly. Not everyone knows what NIP is and how to deal with it. I'm not new with IT, but I have absolutly no clue what NIP is or how to use it. I'm probably not the only one..
NIP is just Nostr Improvement Possibility. The building blocks of how Nostr works are all NIPs of various numbers. Users don't need to know what a NIP is or what any specific NIP is for.
You used a kind 1 note defined in NIP-01 to respond to me, and you had no idea of either. Your client didn't ask you if you wanted to create a kind 1 note. It just presented you with a reply button.
Good design will obfuscate these technical terms away in your client.
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