If I set up a company WoT relay and followed my personal account with it, a bunch of (lovely) memers would be posting memes on that professional relay. If instead my company account could attest that it trusts my personal account "for programming" and my personal account trusts a handful of npubs "for programming", then the WoT relay would tend to have more programming posts and fewer memes.
Not to mention the fact that I follow some people I *actively distrust* and dislike - but I still want to see what they are posting. so like the last people I'd want in a protected trust circle!
quotingif you're running a WoT (Web-of-Trust) relay, please let me know. I'd like to compile a list.
nevent1q…6gcy
wss://wot.utxo.one - utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 (npub1utx…50e8)
wss://nostrelites.org - Derek Ross (npub18am…p424)
wss://relay.diegoyegros.com - Alezkar (npub1p3r…gxl9)
wss://wot.sovbit.host - Enki (npub1gnw…errq)
What's a Web-of-Trust relay?
It's a type of relay that anyone can read from, but only certain people can write to. If the owner follows you or one of the people that the owner follows, follows you, then you're considered inside their Web-of-Trust. You can then write to this relay!
Example:
I follow jack (npub1sg6…f63m) but I do not follow @billybob. jack (npub1sg6…f63m) however does follow @billybob. Therefore, @billybob is allowed to write to my WoT relay.
Even if you're not inside a WoT, you can still use these relays for reading Nostr content. This relay software also fetches and archives content from people inside the WoT automatically. This means users inside the WoT don't even need to choose these relays and write to them for their content to be available on these relays. And then readers can enjoy this content with little to no spam. Cool.