NIP-XX: Decentralized Social Verification for Sybil Resistance aka Orange Check
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nips/issues/1851#issue-2940115890
Discussion
What would happen when all the bots approve each other? The net cost is the fees and they have created a transitive trust island. As with the WOT issue (my limited understanding is) where someone currently follows a bot, their follower graph transitively trust the bot too.
If I follow you, any social engineering for a human to approve (maliciously or stoopidly) validate one of these linked bots would then orange check them all. Am I missing something?
(Certainly multiple attestations would help. Also weighting in a pagerank/eigenvector way would help)
Shouldn’t be a score instead of a definitive verification? For instance if I verify my own bots, how would it be?
I do like the concept of an orange check. I’m looking forward to seeing the implementation.