Imagine a day when you want to know the truth of what’s happening at the front lines of a war zone.

You have two options: legacy media and whatever other options exist today, versus a fully decentralized WoT that doesn’t yet exist today, but which we are going to build on top of nostr.

Legacy media tells you what the military industrial complex wants you to hear.

Twitter/X shows you a video of something exploding, and then community notes says the video was from 10 years ago.

You don’t know what to believe.

Luckily, it turns out that through your WoT, you know some people who know some people who know some people (and so on) who know THOUSANDS OF ACTUAL PEOPLE who are at the front lines and are willing to attest, in real time, to events as they happen. Digitally signed, timestamped. And you’ll trust what they say because your WoT tells you, with some precisely calculated degree of certainty, that each of those pubkeys is not a bot, and lives in the stated location, and is not a spook, and whatever else you need to know so you can have confidence in each individual statement of fact. And you’ll trust Alice (+ many others) when they each sift through all this information for you and draw some conclusion based on it, bc your WoT tells you each one of them is individually trustworthy in the relevant context.

At some point between here and there, when we graduate from curation of the best memes to curation of objective reality, when WoT is what stands between us and ww3, users are going to accept an interface that is as complex as it needs to be.