Nostr Web Client

Ok. Been meaning to publish this for a little while now.

I think reviews are an extremely underrated / under explored design space for application that want to leverage Nostr (in particular, the social graph).

In this essay, the first of a series I want to publish on nostr:npub1w0rthyjyp2f5gful0gm2500pwyxfrx93a85289xdz0sd6hyef33sh2cu4x, I break down:

- how reviews drive commerce

- despite their being broken / fake / easily gamed

- how the internet originally won

- what’s needed to make the internet functional again (upgraded stack)

- how this upgraded stack makes a whole new design spaces possible

- how ONE of the many things we’ll fix is reviews

- how we’re going about it with a project we’re calling Satlantis

https://highlighter.com/npub1dtgg8yk3h23ldlm6jsy79tz723p4sun9mz62tqwxqe7c363szkzqm8up6m/Reviewing-Reviews-lpinxc/

nostr:npub18lzls4f6h46n43revlzvg6x06z8geww7uudhncfdttdtypduqnfsagugm3 - as promised. Put it up on highlighter.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m - this is what I was alluding to last week. That being said, I want to dig deeper on your particular comment, and I’ll do that in the next essay.

nostr:npub1sfhflz2msx45rfzjyf5tyj0x35pv4qtq3hh4v2jf8nhrtl79cavsl2ymqt - Thankyou for your early feedback 🙏🏽

diasporic 1y ago

Alex: Thanks for the thoughtful presentation.

Do you think it's possible to calculate transitive trust/relevance based on each principal's social graph?

Would it be desirable to have a dampening function on such a transversal search, a la IP routing protocols' TTLs. Otherwise you might end up with social graph loops.

Also, I may care less about the judgement of a friend of a friend of a friend than I do about a direct friend.

When I think about webs of trust, I immediately think about how unwieldy the PGP user trust survey is. Also, I think I'd feel a bit uncomfortable about broadcasting my evaluation of my social graph connections. So if there are any gradations between "connected" and "not connected", it seems like that ought to be private information either stored locally for each client/user, or else self-signed/encrypted data if published for cross-Nostr-client portability.

OK, one last blurb re: open social graphs. I think Tantek Çelik's microFormats, hCard, XFN, and FOAF concepts might be relevant, although they all seem to lean towards the too-much-information/self-compiled-dossier side of social graphs. See http://gmpg.org/xfn/and/#idconsolidation for some links.

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