Awesome 💜 Excited to see these features developed more. The trending feeds do help and can be useful, but clearly they can also be manipulated. Moving toward more user choice and control and transparency, and away from centralized/hidden/easily-manipulated algorithms is the approach that moves Nostr in the direction of freedom. Thanks for taking the time to look at this thread 🫂🤙
Thanks for reporting this!
We can definitely update the logic to exclude obvious wash zapping. But as nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn said below, zaps can be faked in less obvious ways so they will never be bulletproof. A more advanced solution would indeed involve WoT analysis, which we are planning to get into in the coming weeks.
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Absolutely, thanks for the great investigative effort here!
This was always going to be a cat and mouse game. Our current algo is very simple and not too hard to game. The plan has always been to keep improving it over time and offer more user options. Btw, our entire stack is open sourced, so our algo is fully transparent for everyone to see.