WoT is a flawed system, as are humans
also, your WoT is never perfectly aligned with your interests, and removing certain people because they follow 1 bot or person you don’t like does not fix the problem but create an echo chamber
nostr has a lot of data available, why not use it
automated content classification (you can amplify topics you normally see less to eliminate echo chambers) and ignore certain topics (too much bitcoin talk? filter the “lower quality” posts)
content quality classification
also, zaps could be used. pay a 500 sat or so fee once and prove you are human
When I first heard of wot I thought it was limiting so I didn't really consider it until now. It isn't perfect but maybe a notch better than public and free.
a very little amount
i only follow ~1000 people and my baseline wot from the relays i can access is >280k pubkeys.. and nostr only has 20k DAU supposedly so.. i think its nice. 🏝️
my #realy relay has a type of WoT that is what i call "friends and guests" where it allows access to the follows of a set of designated owners and gives access to the follows of those follows
on my relay, i follow about 100 and my relay has whitelisted about 11000
i did at one point have a spider on it that was actively searching for all my follows' follow lists to build that list, i need to restore that or build a separate tool for this purpose that spiders the network to get the latest versions of your follows, then you can run a realy also that gives everyone you follow and everyone they follow read access
this was also why i was a bit mad when i found that #jumble was encrypting the mute list (was reasons for it but no option to not use it that way) as the mute list excludes users that get included by that very large list
if i had 1000 follows i'd guess i'd have more like 200k users whitelisted, if the proportions are consistent
hmmm i just realised that i could be saving a lot of processing and time by changing that list generation into a bloom filter with a really low false positive rate (under 100x the number that is there, so, 0.000001 would do the trick)
making a mental note for later
Maby the solution is to mute the bot who is problematic instead of the person who follows the bot.
There's quite a lot of 'follow everyone you see/replies to you' advice on nostr, which I think is a terrible idea and probe aly (?) messes WoT.
As always I blame Derek Ross (jkjk love you Derek)
