Oddbean

This seems like a halfway to federation approach which I have no issue with. My issue is that access to the data on relay should be inaccessible by relay operators unless specifically granted by user for specific time and task. This probably wont happen though since it would imply moving the filtering / trusting capabilities to the edge by necessity and i dont see relay operators wanting to give up access to peoples data. Anything less than this while relying on relays leaves the door open for abuse. doesnt matter if the current devs and relay runners are saints. We dont know who comes next. its a common problem. once sysadmins, dbas, SLA holders get their hands on data they cant help themselves. eventually they start poking around. they conflate "their server" with "their data" My true concern is that out of expedience we are setting the groundwork for future abuse and social engineering. Good luck as you proceed. I will watch with interest.

Dude. You have awesome feedback. And now I have even more questions… so no … you don’t get to just “drop a comment and go”. - first … actually nostr already has a lot of public data for anyone (relays admins) to use in developing algos and such. - encrypted events are becoming a thing in Nostr. These “gift wrapped” events are mostly opaque to relay operators, which will complicate everything related to server side data processing. - Client side data processing of encrypted events will still be possible … and Nostr SHOULD have NIP in place for “privacy agreement” or something that keeps clients transparent and honest (like a checkbox “allow client side only processing of private DMs to improve WoT score…”) - given all this… private “is trusted” events will be the first challenge to design an implementation standard for. Yes. These will need to be encrypted (who is trusting who) AND available for server side processing (who’s in my trust network) … I’m “confident” this is doable. So yea… let’s be clear and lay solid groundwork to let WoT on Nostr be sovereign by design.

Unfortunately I am spending all my extra cycles on learning market stuff and dealing setting up the family migration out of Canada rn. When I get through this cycle ill get back to active participation in projects as funder or dev or both. for now though my plate is full so I have to satisfy myself with yelling from the audience. Ill jump on stage when time allows and if there is no one else to do the specific thing. Other than that. am jus pleb 4 now ser.