higher than average pagerank
Discussion
What is page rank?
Sorry I’m asking a bunch of questions.
can you add an indicator to user's npub. world profile to indicate whether they are considered a real user?
this account is tiny but im 100% a real user and i'd like to know whether i'm recognized as such
There is no clear cut answer to whether someone is "real", of "fake". The whole concept of npub.world is that the user decides it, with the information presented in the page.
Take this example.
There are two odells, with the one in the middle being the clear impostor, that btw fooled many other (cc nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qqsqxefne258ydmfgm2wfl02fsdqgs0d5wx29kweg9amxcqxew4t7kq0qzlxp nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgcwaehxw309akxjemgw3hxjmn8wfjkccte9e3k7mgqypccmdu00yaerldvqa9lfu6zadha3dqvs2h2lnakld7v6s5c0j8cjt7fg36 nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnzd96xxmmfdejhytnnda3kjctvqqsrgh29j0vx3upfh2eecj0unvg6wcgmzz6g5e0gz5fcr5c3t07etkcwfstf0 ) probably because they use clients that make the two profiles indistinguishible.
If I had a metric that says if someone is real or fake based on followers, if you would be real, then the fake odell would be real as well, and vice versa.
The information presented should be used in relative terms, meaning between the two odells, one is clearly fake.
Understandable. its a hard problem, but there must be a better solution than having someone "reputable" follow you.
i havent put the time in to understanding pagerank yet but it smells of centralization, if you must be followed by someone of a sufficient reputation to be considered reputable yourself
Yes ofc it is centralised. The other solutions are PoW, which means you go back and try with your smartphone to outcompete servers, or payments, which they work but, you know, you have to pay for everything, ever for using a relay
Yeah this happens a lot. You're exactly right, primitive clients (like the one I use) don't even show follower count or "trusted connections" 2 things would be, I either added it to my list a few years ago, and/or followed based on someone else repost.
The other issue is this usually when resolving @ mentions, actually selecting the right npub. I don't remember many public keys, just the ones I have to juggle regularly. "
off to see how many odells I follow XD
Only the Real Odell ™is on TheForest 🌲 .
If I'm not sure about someone with a large following count, I just try to broadcast their note to our relay.