Disagree and I'll explain why:

Safe implies notes outside the wot are dangerous, when really they're just spam.

Ideally all the "dangerous" notes (in the sense of challenging your current paradigm, or empowering you to resist authoritarian control) would be in your wot.

Censors would like you to think that "dangerous" means it may hurt someone's feelings, and that may be somewhat true, but it will be used as an excuse to also censor things "dangerous" in the good sense.

Just my 2 sats, words matter to me a lot, others may disagree l.

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Words matter to me as well, I would normally be arguing your position as well. For example, I hate the term "hate speech". I'm just using safe idiomatically here to mean "secure from spam/porn/challenging viewpoints", in a context where "safe" normally means "Trust and Safety" which is equally dystopian.

safer would be a better word, you are trusting what your followers follow is ok

anyway distributed moderation is a better system from my view already using this wot on iris.to a lot

I get what you're saying, however it's more than spam though. It's unwanted speech, though that's not the correct word in these examples. Safe is a better description here.

its not unwanted speech as this hides wanted speech, its a trust based filter

unwanted speech? so anything outside of your wot is "unwanted" idk about that. maybe "untrusted"?

Yes.

I don't use global now. I haven't for at least 6 montha or more it's a shit show. Implementing a WoT would allow people that want to turn this feature on be able to turn it on and use global once again.

Don't like it because you want a full blown fire hose of everything in global? Then don't turn it on.

This allows you to get what you want and allows me to get what I want. Win/win.

"trusted" ? "approved" ?

If we're going to be pedantic about what this score means, it's really just "popularity" heh.

It's more a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. And so forth. A network of friends.

Right, but I can't think of a better term than popularity to sum it up. adjacency? heh

I think nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3xamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7tpvfkx2tn0wfnszxmhwden5te0vd58y6tnw3cxjmrv9ehx7um5wgcjucm0d5w28rcn implied recursion isn't even in play here so it's nothing beyond friend-of-a-friend?

Right, but I don't think I would call it popularity, since that's independent of your standpoint. It's maybe closer to popularity within friend group, but a better word might be "alignment"

I mean every word so far has been an imperfect descriptor, I wouldn't throw out "popularity" just because it's an imperfect match. "alignment" is probably closer to correct, but it's not very clear to a new user imho.

An imperfect understanding of the word "popular" will still lead someone to basically correctly understand the WoT score. "apparent popularity" actually is a near perfect match imho, but it's a bit wordy.

"in groupiness" was my first thought after popularity, but I think it's also a bit unclear to your average new user, and it sounds goofy lol

Happy to help you bikeshed the term for the rest of the day instead of doing more important things πŸ˜‰ πŸ˜‚

Let's go with in-groupiness haha

Last comment on this I swear! What about just calling it a "Score" or "WoT Score" and if the user cares enough to investigate what that is, give them a precise description in a tooltip or something. Otherwise, all the user REALLY needs to know is it's some kind of score, higher is better.

That is in fact exactly what I'm doing lol

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πŸ˜‚ glad that’s settled

People are so used to hearing these terms used in a dystopian way it's hard to even talk about Nostr's paradigm. "Safe" is a subjective adjective, "unwanted" is a passive verb. The agent isn't specified, and around here it's not who it usually is.

I guess it's somewhat hard to realize that not everyone wants to control you and some are legitimately trying to give control back to you.

safe is the woke misused word