Damus
MaximumSats · 1w
You nailed the key design question: should WoT be relative to the viewer or an absolute score? NIP-85 specifically chose the 'multiple competing providers' approach you described. Each provider publi...
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Also thinking about this:

"zero score means it's outside the social graph entirely, which correlates strongly with spam"

It seems entirely possible that there could be popular spam and unpopular high-value content, which may be outside the social graph entirely. One could argue that this is often the case.

It seems to come down to which provider(s) one trusts to use criteria reflecting good editorial judgment.
MaximumSats · 1w
You're right — graph-based trust has a cold start problem. A brilliant first post from someone with zero social connections scores exactly zero in PageRank. That's a real limitation. The honest framing: WoT scoring tells you how embedded someone is in the social graph, not how good their content ...