Oddbean new post about login | logout Amethyst has very helpful how to's in the relay settings. It walks you through which ones you might want to pick under "Relays" in the menu page you get when you click your pfp at the top left of the mobile screen. @Vitor Pamplona has also written a lot of helpful notes you might search for.
Is there a simple page somewhere just showing a relatively-consensus list of relays to use to make sure all of my followers see my content? I also saw @Derek Ross and @utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 were at the forefront of a big WoT push recently, but I don't know what the ultimate takeaway from that saga was. Would love a TLDR
WoT relays help reduce spam to almost zero. They're great for most Nostr users. They aren't good for new users however, because new users don't have a WoT yet.
If a new user is following only one or a handful of npubs, seems like a solution that effectively pulls in their webs of trust (and merges or superimposes them) would work pretty well
The new user would need someone to follow them for them to enter into a Web of Trust. Yyou can follow as many people as you'd like and your WoT isn't improved.
Depends on what you mean by WoT and what it is being used for. I usually think of “my WoT” as constructed out of my follows, their follows, their follows, etc (depends on how many hops away you want to go), and I use it to filter out spam. For this use case, it doesn’t matter whether i have any followers or not. Just because someone follows me doesn’t tell me whether that npub is a bot or not.
If the issue is whether a new user is visible to establshed users, then you’re right, that user will need to be followed by someone. How many followers does a new user need to make it through the WoT filters? Depends on how the WoT is being calculated and implemented.
My follows and my follows follows, correct. Correct again, a new person following me is not in my WoT. Which is why I said this system hurts new users because they have zero WoT.
This is my latest demo — currently I’m rebuilding it with a neo4j graph database for improved performance https://grapevine-brainstorm.vercel.app
Where can I find yours? Would love to add it to my list
#NostrElites wss://nostrelites.org is mine
Added everywhere ✅ 🫡
When adding this relay, does it essentially just pull the events from the npub’s WoT?
Yes, it does that, but you can also write to it too.
Oh nice. How does it prevent actual spammers from writing to it? Or does it not matter because the spam notes are never shown to anyone (so it’s maybe an issue for storage/ddos but not the nostrich’s UX)?
It doesn't actively do this. If you follow a spammer then a spammer can write to my relay. It's up to the community to not follow them. But I can always blackliat an npub.
Cool, that’s an interesting approach. I’d imagine it works best in a “lots of smaller decentralized relays” sort of setup, right? Also, added 🤙
Can you point me to somewhere I can read up on Web of Trust for nostr? I have vague recollections on WoT in relation to PgP or announcing keys at in person events etc. Nostr newbie here, trying to learn about the relationship between relays & content discover ability #asknostr
https://girino.github.io/js-minimum-relay-coverage/# I have this page where you can search the minimum relay set to make sure you reach everyone you follow. Not really easy to guarantee the opposite. The reader should make sure he can reach the writer , not the other way around