Embrace anonymity. Embrace throwaway keys. Embrace inconsistent stats. Lose the follower count. Focus on conversations and quality of relations. How do we highlight the quality of our connections? And no it’s not through wot. It’s part of it but not the complete picture.
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Nailed it…
How to highlight the quality of connections?
So web of trust is part of the picture … but current WoT implementations simply use “follow”, which nobody associates with “trusted” except lazy software developers … so I’d argue that WoT on Nostr needs a refactor.
What would be “other parts” of the picture?
I believe nostr:npub1s277u5rww60te98w9umz6p7pjcxuus96cegdsf4y978qcqvu8jtq88dsym is working on a more nuanced WoT.
The other parts could include how often you reply to someone, how long you’ve been following them, whether you share their notes, if the interactions are both ways, overall activity level between two individuals.
I think the key is to look at interactions both ways because you can follow and influencer and respond to them every day without them ever saying anything back.
A personal label is probably good too as long as you’re the only one seeing it. You can get a better picture of whether your connections to people are improving or not simply by counting the labels.
Color indicators - something to let you know how you feel about someone.
Many of these could backfire if done wrong. Gotta be careful and think through.
