ManiMe on Nostr: I think I’ve outlined your 2 and 3 in this short summary article. ...

I think I’ve outlined your 2 and 3 in this short summary article.

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Trusted connections between real people on Nostr is how this open social network (owned by nobody) will avoid being overrun by bots and bad actors.

Because Nostr doesn’t have centralized moderation or content control, the surfacing of quality content is becoming a growing concern for users and developers alike. Decentralized “webs of trust” (friends trusting friends for content and account recommendations) is our best protection, but the tools that form these webs (content filters and trust rankings) need to be in the hands of end users. The ad-hoc manner in which webs of trust is implemented on Nostr today (based on follows and different for each client) is both inaccessible and unscalable.

Sovereign Webs of Trust will fix this.

Sovereign WoT is a Nostr Implementation Possibility (NIP) being designed to put the end user in charge of their own feeds and recommendations. It proposes two standards. One for end users to indicate whether a followed account “is trusted” and another for developers to publish filters that can suggest “trustworthy” content and accounts for their subscribed users.

Here’s (roughly) how it could work:

1. Because “followed ≠ trusted” (for most users), a dedicated and private “is trusted” list (replaceable event kind) for every user will provide the canonical reference for algos to suggest “trustworthy” content and accounts.

2. Because “free markets” are a great environment for discovering what works and what doesn’t, end users will be able to subscribe to (and share) their favorite WoT filters for content feeds and account recommendations. These WoT filters (event kinds) may be published by clients, or relays, or any vendor, and may use any Nostr event data to surface “trustworthy” content and accounts.

Some WoT filter possibilities

Maybe WoT filters for content feeds?

• all my folllows content?
• all my follows trusted by my WoT?
• only from my trusted follows?
  • only content reacted to by a trusted follow?

Maybe WoT filters for recommending new follows?

• accounts who post reactions or comments on a “marked” post?
• accounts followed by my trusted accounts?
• accounts trusted by my trusted accounts?
• accounts with content “reposted” by a trusted account?
• WARN of imposter (having similar profile data as trusted or followed)?
• better WARN of imposter (also checks for similar pfp)?

Maybe WoT filters for suggesting wot filters?

• used by my trusted friends?
• used by anybody in my WoT?

Maybe WoT filters to manage trust ranking itself?

• all my follows are trusted?
• all my follows whom I’ve “interacted with” in 30 days are trusted?
• TrustNet style “let me assign labels and numbers” to qualify trust level.

It’s all on the table.

Join the discussion :

• follow and post to these tags on Nostr: #wot, #wotnip, #sovwot

• join and post to the “Sovereign WoT WG” working group : naddr1qv…6vst/notes

• track our progress in the NIPs repo on GitHub