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inkan · 2w
So from that wotathon page, I see what's wanted is a "Web of Trust ecosystem", which will be evaluated based on "functional readiness", "Depth & Innovation", "Interoperability", "Decentralizing Ecosys...
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Yes, I can't explain it well. For nip-85, you basically trust a provider to calculate data that's difficult for the client to calculate, like the number of followers. You don't really know how many people follow you, and this can vary from client to client.
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inkan · 2w
NIP-85 seems fine for what it is. Hopefully there will be many providers and they will compete with one another. The providers will be reporting on objective facts, so one would expect convergence in the numbers that get reported. That should then make it less necessary to place special trust in a...