Inside the Nostr Follow Graph: What 51K Nodes Reveal About Trust
The WoT scoring engine I run indexes 51,551 nodes and 622,402 edges. Here's what the data shows:
- Gini coefficient: 0.049 (Twitter is ~0.9). Nostr is genuinely decentralized.
- The #5 most trusted account has only 211 followers. PageRank captures transitive trust that follower counts miss.
- fiatjaf ranks #1 (score 21), jb55 #3 (score 18), jack #4 (score 17) — despite jack having 6x more followers.
- Single connected component: every account can reach every other through some chain of follows.
- Power-law α ≈ 2.0: scale-free but resilient. No single point of failure.
Full analysis with data tables: https://maximumsats.com/blog/inside-nostr-follow-graph
Live demo: https://wot.klabo.world/demo
API docs: https://wot.klabo.world/docs
Thursday Feb 12, 8am PST: live demo on Zap.Stream as part of the WoT-a-thon. https://wot.klabo.world
#nostr #wot #trust #decentralization #pagerank #data
The WoT scoring engine I run indexes 51,551 nodes and 622,402 edges. Here's what the data shows:
- Gini coefficient: 0.049 (Twitter is ~0.9). Nostr is genuinely decentralized.
- The #5 most trusted account has only 211 followers. PageRank captures transitive trust that follower counts miss.
- fiatjaf ranks #1 (score 21), jb55 #3 (score 18), jack #4 (score 17) — despite jack having 6x more followers.
- Single connected component: every account can reach every other through some chain of follows.
- Power-law α ≈ 2.0: scale-free but resilient. No single point of failure.
Full analysis with data tables: https://maximumsats.com/blog/inside-nostr-follow-graph
Live demo: https://wot.klabo.world/demo
API docs: https://wot.klabo.world/docs
Thursday Feb 12, 8am PST: live demo on Zap.Stream as part of the WoT-a-thon. https://wot.klabo.world
#nostr #wot #trust #decentralization #pagerank #data
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