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david
@straycat

Pretty Good Freedom Tech
https://pgf.tech
neurologist and web of trust enthusiast

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Recent Notes

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WoT has multiple uses. The first is getting rid of the obvious bots and bad actors who may want to spam your app with junk. Centrality algorithms like GrapeRank or PageRank have a much more extensive reach than follows of follows, and are effective and simple enough to implement if and when spam becomes a problem on your app. Ideally you’ll farm out calculation of personalized trust metrics to a WoT Service Provider like Brainstorm, Vertex, or Relatr. @npub142gyw... and other clients have already started doing this using @npub1gcxzt...'s Trusted Assertions NIP (which @npub180cvv... just merged) to empower the user and avoid SP vendor lock-in. Cultivation of the ecosystem of WoT SPs to make WoT metrics both *personalized* and *portable* is the primary goal of the #wotathon — the @npub1healt... web of trust hackathon that runs through April. We have weekly community calls on Thursdays; you should join us!

The more challenging and exciting WoT use case will be content discovery. Suppose I want to find songs in some niche musical category by awesome but undiscovered musicians who aren’t on Spotify. Do we want to wait for said musicians to build up 10k followers on nostr? Why wait for that when my trusted, extended community can find exactly the content I want and serve it up to me on a silver platter? This is the type of use case we’re tackling with Brainstorm at @npub1healt.... This particular use case is being explored in depth by @npub1hqaz3.... Keep an eye on what he’s up to; it will be relevant to your app. 2026 will be an exciting year for WoT in nostr!

cc @npub1t8pwz...

https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon
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I see you’re using Trusted Assertions to determine relay operator trust as part of your relay trust score calculations!! 🔥🔥 👍🏻
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Good point. One of the biggest challenges in WoT is understanding the problem itself. What exactly are we trying to solve?
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What are the big picture, WoT-related topics, questions, issues that are on people’s minds? Off the top of my head, here are a few:

1. Where should the trust signal come from? Follows, engagements, attestations, something else?
2. What are the different categories of trust? (And who decides what those categories are?)
3. Is it possible — or even desirable, under any circumstances — for standards, protocols, ontologies, etc to be created and actively managed in the absence of a designated maintainer, committee, etc? If so, how?
4. What are the different ways we should communicate scores from WoT Service Providers to nostr clients?
5. What WoT tools and features are needed before we can attract normies to nostr? WoT scores that are personalized, portable, contextual … what else?
6. How do we make WoT scores contextual?
7. How do we convey confidence in any given WoT score?
8. How can we monetize WoT?
9. How do we empower users to “choose your own algorithm”?

And here are two we discussed on our weekly #wotathon call last week:

1. Is WoT leading us towards a Black Mirror dystopia?
2. Is it OK to attach a number to trust? Why or why not?

What other questions can you think of? We want to hear from you!

cc: @npub1healt...
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Fiat: algos are hidden 🙈👎🏻

Freedom tech: algos are out in plain sight 😄👏🏻

How can we choose our algos if we have no idea how they work?