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…
