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mbrochh | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Amazing! But isn't one of the main powers of social media that your post goes viral and lots of people who are NOT in your social graph will reply to you and thus you can tap into the wisdom of the crowd?

Most people that I follow don't follow me back, so that would mean when I post something I would barely ever see any replies to my posts.
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Martti Malmi | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Social graph is not just the people you follow (1st degree), but also people they follow (2nd degree) and so on.

Currently Iris loads up to 2nd degree by default. There's also a tool for crawling up to 3rd degree, but it consumes a lot of bandwidth and cpu. 2nd degree was 20K users and 3rd degree 160K users in my graph, so there's plenty of diverse voices.

Optionally we could show posts from unknown users who have a nip05 (e.g. username@iris.to) from a bot-resistant provider. In a permissionless system like Nostr, we will always need to limit write access somehow or it will be filled with spam.

https://image.nostr.build/1407ad9d130088eceff4a8f1d73dc4f546237b47db170c8f48313d38839695eb.png
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marcan0 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 This is really clean. Great work, man.
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mbrochh | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Very cool. 2nd degree should be a good start. NIP05 should be even better, provided that someone maintains a good blacklist for domains that are used by spammers. (and that opens up the problem that legitimate people might get into that blacklist and then need to fight their way out, ugh...)