Nostr Web Client

I've thought about it this a lot recently. Just like in life, there are layers/levels to the amount your trust or want to pay attention to someone.

I've always thought it would be a cool UI pattern to have a dial or a slider for all feeds on Nostr, where you can control the aperture of the feed based on their WoT proximity to you, how much you trust them, or how much you want to pay attention to them.

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DataNostrum 1y ago

Agreed.

In my opinion, though, you should also be able to trust some *for something specific*, not trust them across the board. For instance, I may trust the entity "shitcoin bots tracking collective" to provide me with a list of npubs to block, or I may even grant it the rights to automatically block them for me. (At a later point, when I notice that the "shitcoin bots tracker" has become overzealous, or maybe has quality issues, I can revoke that privilege.)

This is different from trusting that entity unconditionally for everything, there should always be a scope.

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JeffG 1y ago

Yup. Hard to do this in the digital realm in a way that people will actually do but you’re right, we do this sort of delegation of decision making based on trust all the time.

DataNostrum 1y ago

Yes, we do it intuitively.

Making it explicit is a difficult job, I agree. Because the abstraction needs to be simple enough that people actually want to use it.