These are great questions that Leo raises. First, what are the WoT primitives that we need but haven’t built yet? Second, where does the “trust signal” come from? Follows and mutes are a start but we need more than that if we want to tackle trust in specific contexts. Which raises the next question: who manages the list of “trust contexts”?
My short answers to these questions:
The trust signal comes from anywhere and everywhere we can get it. Follows, mutes, zaps, reactions, attestations, we use it all. How? Via the magic of *interpretation*, which means: write a script that takes some subset of the raw data (follows, reactions, attestations, whatever) and converts that into a format that is convenient for whatever algo you are using. I need to write an to date article on interpretation — I have an old one but it’s not very well fleshed out.
And who determines the lists of contexts? Who crafts the attestations? The fiat answer: the dev team of some big centralized platform. The freedom tech answer: your WoT. How can that work?
I strongly believe that Decentralized Lists is going to prove itself as one of the primitives for WoT. My WoT will help me
maintain a list of trust contexts, a list of attestations, the list of fields for any given attestation, etc.
It’s hard to envision the role that decentralized lists will play when it’s still just an abstract idea. Which is why one of my great hopes for this #wotathon is to see apps that implement decentralized list curation. A generic app that can be used for any list would be a great entry for the hackathon. Or maybe an app that manages lists for some focused category, like lists of musicians for nostr:npub1h8gzew8am6cezuq7cpjgudldra40hgnruqrqlsrqnxnzs5wjtczqztps02 . Let’s see the teams form up and see what we can build!
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i'm brainstorming approaches that will let me hit decentralized lists and catallax in one project. very excited for this #wotathon and even more excited for the spring after!
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