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Also if you see a specification being broadcasted on a relay you can expect there's a chance that it is being used on those relays. Could reinforce territorial dynamics though.

But beyond that, a registry can stand as endorsement of the content, and endorsements of the specifications it links to. Other users endorsing that article can gauge the level of concensus for specifications. Rather than a specified length, it will decay for less known/used nips,

Then there is Vitor's demo of running a webserver from nostr events. How can you determine the trustworthy events on a relay where anyone can send events? You can read a registry from a trusted user (at this point, i mean actual trust, not computational WOT stuff) and that can act as a dns server to other nostr events. If we were to computationally do it, we'd need a strong metric that cant be gamable. Otherwise I'd see how that'd be a big safety hazard.

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Laeserin 1y ago

I guess I add a layer of "human trust" because I'm not going to merge anything I haven't examined.

That wouldn't block someone from adding his to an additional page, like an addendum, but it probably wouldn't be auto-extracted and used in a relay or something. He'd have to market it, separately.

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liminal 🦠 1y ago

Bring back old school human trust to technology and the internet! nostr:npub1f6ugxyxkknket3kkdgu4k0fu74vmshawermkj8d06sz6jts9t4kslazcka might be an interesting angle from a security/privacy aspects about this and how we can work through them.

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liminal 🦠 1y ago

Specifically:

We can formalize the specs we recognize, we can signal users to be trusted to not run malicious source code. Using human trust, you can at least say that code from their events is less likely to be malicious. Computational trust, we'd need a hardened method for that.

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Laeserin 1y ago

I mean, the holy grail of event registries is a "used in client" field. Which would also make obsolete events obvious, as no client would be using them.