We’ve been talking about trust attestations for almost two years.

After many panel discussions and Nostr threads, a “few of us” came to the realization that, while having a NIP for “explicit trust attestation” would be great, getting clients to implement and end users to author “explicit attentions” reliably … would be a big ask … with little actual reward in the end.

In order to determine “actual” trustworthiness (of content or users), having an incomplete (low usage) or imprecise (poor usage) collection of “explicit” trust markers will not replace the need for algos to process any number of “implicit” trust markers that are already abundant and available to harvest on Nostr.