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 nostr:nprofile1qyd8wumn8ghj7urewfsk66ty9enxjct5dfskvtnrdakj7qgewaehxw309a5x7ervvfhkgtnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcqyztuwzjyxe4x2dwpgken87tna2rdlhpd02va5cvvgrrywpddnr3jyu0f9kn  another Coracle question. Is your implementation of WoT equivalent (not necessarily compatible) to how it works in systems like OpenPGP? If not, what needs to be done to get there? 
 No idea, I haven't read about PGP's WoT implementation, so probably not. From what I understand PGP is much more explicit about trusting other keys, while mine is based on follow lists, which is more implicit. 
 yes, pgp trust has levels 
 it would be interesting to tinker with developing reasonable semantics for trust level in the follow list, can't think off the top of my head how you would do it though 
 maybe engagement statistics would elevate the secondary computation of trust level? 
 I mean, PGP's main trust condition is meeting IRL, and I don't think anything should supplant that. I'm pretty sure that everything else is based on degrees of separation 
 i think engagement is a useful vector to add to a calculation though

requiring IRL meeting started to get really impractical in the last 10 years when it comes to affinity, and personally i expected this to happen

no way you all are coming to hang anywhere near me in the middle of the atlantic off the west african coast somehow i think 
 yea, but I'm irrelevant to you and everyone you know in your West African coastal community. Whether or not we talk all the time is irrelevant, I could be a chatbot. 
 but if i find your content interesting enough to follow you, and i keep reacting and responding to your stuff.. not just the OPs, let's say, but also in the threads, and TO your responses in them... i think that it's possible to make a metric out of that 
 Cool, I think it's a path worth exploring. It's probably something as simple as an event with someone else's pubkey as its content. Throw in some proof-of-work to give the signature some weight, perhaps?