Nostr Web Client

If a system exists, the system will be attempted to be manipulated. We've heard this before. We've seen this before.

How can Nostr fix this?

A Web-of-Trust helps to alleviate untrustworthy people. We can build this WoT on Nostr.

Our public keys are our identities and these identities will be used for marketplaces, entertainment, relationships, and more.

Don't be confused. A WoT is not a social credit score.

Social credit systems differ in their approach to trust assessment. Social credit scores are implemented by governments or centraized entities that collect and analyze data about individuals' behavior. This is the scary, dystopian future that you've read about.

In contrast, a WoT is a decentralized system where individuals build trust through direct interactions and reputation. This community driven approach promotes transparency and accountability. Social credit systems do not have these features. WoT gives power back to the individual and to their community.

Keep building.

david 1y ago

People have tried and failed to get WoT to work since the introduction of pgp in 1991. Here’s my stab at why they’ve failed, and what we must do to succeed.

The problem is that people have always jumped to the end goal, and skipped the beginning, the foundation.

The end goal is for your WoT to curate facts and information. Everything from what’s the best coffee shop to what’s happening at the front lines of a war zone. Everything from subjective opinion to objective facts.

But we have skipped the foundation, which is this: your WoT needs to curate the language itself. The digital tools that we use to talk about facts and information. Currently these tools are curated by digital stewards: repo managers, w3c committees on standards, etc. We need our WoT to take over the responsibilities of every one of these digital stewards. Only then will we see WoT reach its potential.

This is what I’m working on, btw.

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david 1y ago

The protocol I am using is divided into two main sections: the concept graph, which describes how information is represented, and the grapevine, which describes how it is curated. The concept graph describes how to ask a question and the grapevine describes how your WoT answers it.

Ultimately, this protocol will be encoded using the concept graph and managed by your grapevine. Your grapevine is going to manage the protocol and the code that allows your grapevine to exist! Gonna take a long time to get there but it will happen. But even before we reach that point, we’ll be able to build some useful platforms.

david 1y ago

Imagine a nostr apps page that enables your grapevine to manage a list of nostr apps, a hierarchy of categories of apps, and assigns each app to the appropriate category(ies).

Imagine a Wikipedia where you pick the ppl who pick the ppl who pick the ppl who manage the articles.

Imagine Yelp where your WoT weeds out fake reviews. Imagine being able to pay a few sats for reviews from trusted sources, thus incentivizing users to enter high quality info into the system (bc when ppl see low quality info, the WoT will decrease their trust score in that context).

Imagine legacy social media minus all the bots, scammers and trolls, with better ability to find the content you want.

Every legacy platform will be rebuilt. And your identity and all associated information will be portable.

No more walled gardens.