Personally, it doesn't help me much to know who to follow or not. Likewise, following someone just because your followers follow them or unfollowing them because your followers silence them is a bit “weird”
Maybe it will help to have an idea of who to follow for the newest ones, just that
They are purposely balkanizing the space. When the eventual webs of trust are formed then the social divisions have weight. Its clockwork.
Step 1 appeal to safety. Scare ppl
Step 2 scared ppl will self organize with others who have same fears.
Step 3. Turn the fearful against each other.
Step 4. While they are fighting each other, we take all their stuff
Old game. People always fall for it. Always.
Follow does NOT equal trust. This was Nostr’s first mistake, to “copy and paste” this architecture from walled garden social, without accounting for the “centralized trust” that every user is required to subscribe to, which Nostr will never provide.
Once Nostr has a discrete and PRIVATE “is trusted” event that users can publish, then the power of decentralized WoT will make more sense.
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Can you elaborate on this upcoming functionality please?
Did you read the article?
I refuse to “push” my own great ideas directly to a NIP, without refining them (or obliterating them altogether) with feedback from other interested parties. I am just a conversation starter. So I’m not entirely sure what the end “specification” will be… except for “Sovereign Webs of Trust”.
Anyway… me anything. I’m happy to hear concerns or ideas.
“Ask” me anything.
To your point of “social score” … the “sovereign” in “sovereign wot” is not just pretty talk. Here’s part of what “sovereign” will require (as per feedback from many)
- “trust” must be explicitly and privatly stated by a user for another user.
- WoT filter algos that do the “scoring” and “recommendations” may be published by anyone (clients, relays, dvms, users).
- A user may subscribe to any published “WoT Filter” for populating content feeds or follow recommendations or other stuff.
- Any “scoring” or “recommending” of users or content is entirely relative to each user and the “network of trusted users” that they have created.
This is some of what makes “sovereign”. Add your own requirements also…
Web of trust is just a term in this context (follows of follows)
My rule of thumb for following people is to follow "the people that I consider the most logical". To me, it doesn't matter if I'm reading a real person or a machine because logic is logic no matter where it comes from.
In that sense, the heuristic for me is that some follows of my follows will "probably" be also logical and that will give me a lot of free time by not searching as crazy through all Nostr for people to follow
Agreed. If I dig your feed then Ill prob follow some of your follows.
I don't post anything substantial thought 😂. Only comment occasionally
this was more substantial than most things on social media fren I wouldnt worry.
Another thing is: sometimes logicality can be pretty difficult to search in a sea of noise. Because I have a lot of follows, I complement all of this with following people that induce me curiosity. I can find later if they are logical or not by just reading their periodic posts
I also recently found the nostrudel WOT test tool. It's a pretty neat tool to search your web of trust in an organized and systematic way
