Following lots of new folks the last few days. My feed feels shiny and new. ✨✨

Shill me more great people to follow!

Is Jitsi bad?

Keet.io

That's bc freedom tech prefers anonymity, which is slightly antithetical to using video calls

Yup. In my framework, attestations are contextual. Some contexts are broad, others are specific / niche. Trust (or lack thereof) in a broad context automatically implies trust (or lack thereof) in all sub-contexts.

The most broad of all would take the form: “Alice trusts (or doesn’t trust) Bob for all actions, in all categories.” In other words, in all contexts. Trust attestations are averaged by your Grapevine to create context-specific influence scores, and the “base layer” of influence scores is the layer that applies to ALL contexts.

Despite my Grandfather being a prominent business man & Mayor in Esfahan, Iran, the regime was able to to kick him out of the country, and withhold his bank account with all of his investments.

There’s many reason why I am a forever supporter of Bitcoin, and this is just one of the many. Your money is never yours with banks, it can be taken away at any time.

I never got the opportunity to meet my Grandfather, sadly the grief of Iran being taken over killed him. But, I’m grateful for his legacy. The regime has tried to erase his memory, but I refuse to let him be forgotten.

Follows, mute lists and other proxy data (likes, etc) can be a useful tool to build a naive WoT, but they are a temporary crutch. We need to replace proxy indicators of trust with explicit trust attestations, for example: “Alice explicitly endorses Bob as trustworthy to curate her Wikifreedia articles in all bitcoin-related categories.”

I keep seeing more signs of this:

-Sabre-rattling from Macron

-German military advisors in Ukr

-Call for Taurus missile strikes

-Investors buying remote land in Argentina explicitly for WW3 scenario

-Billionaire bunker building

Of course none of this is conclusive and could be just the natural reaction to the developing situation. Still... worrying.

I repeat my offer: I will ⚡zap generously any good info on this.

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The Grapevine is definitely complicated under the hood, but there’s a certain minimum complexity that is needed if we really want it to fly, and the fact that one self-taught dev (me) can build a working proof of concept shows that it can be done.

Think of it like an airplane. There’s a certain minimum degree of complexity that needs to be achieved if we want it to fly. Web of trust is the same way. But it’s absolutely doable.

if you follow that user it is assumed that you want to see their notes

Jitsy has been corrupted???

Simplex messenger is the best alternative I know of now. No Sim card , phone number, email or anything necessary.

There is also keet by holepunch which may also be the best alternative to jitsy

The problem with web of trust, is that it assumes I trust the people I follow. Maybe I'm just the edge case where this is not true.

Web of Trust should not be assumed to be web of follow. I agree. Also we trust different people for different things.

The problem with web of trust, is that it assumes I trust the people I follow. Maybe I'm just the edge case where this is not true.

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