What if relay moderation looks like a bucket?🪣

We are exploring exactly that with Wotrlay, a new WoT relay we are introducing today! It treats moderation as resource allocation, where the web of trust determines your publishing capacity.

Wotrlay gives each public key a 'bucket' of publishing capacity that refills at different rates based on their social graph rank. Low-rank identities can still participate, but at a measured pace. Higher-rank identities gain more capacity organically through network participation, no manual approval needed.

Try the public instance at wss://wotr.relatr.xyz

This proof-of-concept integrates Relatr for dynamic ranking and is built in Go using the great Rely framework from nostr:npub176p7sup477k5738qhxx0hk2n0cty2k5je5uvalzvkvwmw4tltmeqw7vgup. Kudos to him for it and the WoT example that inspired this project.

If you want to dig deeper, we've published an article that walks through the bucket model, progressive rate limiting, newcomer onboarding, and why this approach avoids auth friction while keeping the relay permissionless in practice.

All the code for this project, is open source and is made to be run by anyone 💛