There is no clear cut answer to whether someone is "real", of "fake". The whole concept of npub.world is that the user decides it, with the information presented in the page. Take this example. image There are two odells, with the one in the middle being the clear impostor, that btw fooled many other (cc @ChipTuner @npub1wxxm...lej2 @royster⚡️ ) probably because they use clients that make the two profiles indistinguishible. If I had a metric that says if someone is real or fake based on followers, if you would be real, then the fake odell would be real as well, and vice versa. The information presented should be used in relative terms, meaning between the two odells, one is clearly fake.

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Understandable. its a hard problem, but there must be a better solution than having someone "reputable" follow you. i havent put the time in to understanding pagerank yet but it smells of centralization, if you must be followed by someone of a sufficient reputation to be considered reputable yourself
Yeah this happens a lot. You're exactly right, primitive clients (like the one I use) don't even show follower count or "trusted connections" 2 things would be, I either added it to my list a few years ago, and/or followed based on someone else repost. The other issue is this usually when resolving @ mentions, actually selecting the right npub. I don't remember many public keys, just the ones I have to juggle regularly. " off to see how many odells I follow XD