Where can our web of trust be visualized, or evaluated? Seems similar to a credit score, which is a free market development to identify âtrustworthy borrowers.â With a credit score, there are known ways and methods to improve your score and âbecome more trustworthyâ to lenders.
Web of trust should be no different. Individuals should have visibility into their WoT, and have practical means of bettering their relationships and building trust.
Coracle has WoT scores. I don't know if other clients do as well at this time. I know that Shopstr is looking to add it in the future.
I think a way to improve your score would be to interact, engage, and buy/sell goods and services. Just like we would IRL.
Possibly those could be methods to âimprove your scoreâ but also possibly easily manipulated and not necessarily a good judgement of quality or trustworthiness.
It will be interesting to know the means by which coracle or other clients âcalculateâ such scores, and if they will become standardized in their calculations, completely unstandardized, or possibly similar to credit scores have a small group of various âcalculatorsâ competing to provide WoT scores using their various independent methods.
Web of Trust is cool. Itâs a personâs reputation built from the ground up via P2P interactions that slowly spread throughout a community.
Whereas credit scores are from The Man tryna herd peeps into consumer silos for targeted advertising.
I believe Coracle just uses popularity as a proxy for WoT. Correct me if I'm wrong nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn I'd like to see something more like the Facebook "friend" a follow the follows back is worth more and even better if there's comments and zaps back and forth.
Seems like a poor metric for âtrustâ
I'm not sure what I think of "friend". Follow is more granular, since friends are a subset of follows. Also, if friend status is justification for access controls, like to family photos or whatnot, that won't fly on nostr. You would instead have to share keys or grant relay access for that. Interesting possibilities though.
What's the difference between popularity and WoT? Coracle uses 1-deep WoT, so it is relative to your follows.
