is it possible to organize all (or most? filtered by some criteria?) nostr profiles in a giant graph of follow relationships and whenever you saw someone a client could show: "this person is followed by carol who is followed by bob who is followed by alice who is followed by you"
how much can such a thing scale?
orkut had this and it was cool.
It can also be used for recommending people to follow as well. Damus had a Follower of my following icon. It was confusing, but better UX could help make it useful.
Are you thinking more to give context or add social proof? It kind of leans into WoT concepts too. But following != trust.
Oh wow. 2004. What a time. I remember trading a Gmail invite for an Orkut invite back in the day.
Remember joga? Google's soccer social network that they bought and forgot about? Nostr will be the only social network that will never be acquired!
It currently is trivial to hold in memory. To name the chain is instantly ambiguous as there is many routs to your second degree follows.
In my client I want to see the degree to which I follow every other pubkey I see and that will also work easily.
It would make for a great graph database
For the individual user that's not much of a "great database". I'm thinking of exploring the closest 10k accounts. Any other accounts are just "not connected". Sorting of follows might be taken into account, with a link being stronger for top follows and 0 beyond number 200.
A little of the way there - >
https://member.cash/index.html#rep?qaddress=4189886364210931217
4189886364210931217? Does npub and hex key work, too? Would be easier to integrate/link to in other platforms.
Very soon!
npub and nsec work now. version 8.10.20+
Would welcome your testing!
I put in my npub to open my account and that works.
"8 posts have been hidden based on your content and network filters." should be clickable to get me to my filter settings or to let me show what's filtered.
I could not figure out how to use npub in this query though: https://member.cash/index.html#rep?qaddress=????
Ok, last one first,
npub should now work here ->
https://member.cash/ba/npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
and here
https://member.cash/#member?qaddress=npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m
