Oddbean new post about login | logout Sovereign Webs of Trust… Curious? *Read this article for my short take.* https://yakihonne.com/article/naddr1qqgx2e3cxqenqef3x56kvd3nxymxzq3qmanlnflyzyjhgh970t8mmngrdytcp3jrmaa66u846ggg7t20cgqqxpqqqp65w7jk7e3 *Comment bellow to offer your own.* 1. What does Sovereign WoT mean to you? 2. Does it require “is trusted” (for a followed account) to be explicitly set by the user, or could “is trusted” be ONLY calculated by algos and still count as sovereign? 3. If explicit is required, can “is trusted” simply be a “follows” (kind3) list, or does it actually need a dedicated ( private event kind) “trusted” list? 4. Would (your) Sovereign WoT require that content filters follow users across clients, and be sharable by them? 5. Should these filters (for end users) be publishable ONLY by clients or ONLY by relays or ONLY by DVMs or ANY and ALL of these?
1.) In Bitcoin Atlantis I overheard it was an emerging problem that we need different levels of trust. Follow list is one, good for "not spam". Probably follow list's follow list is still good enough, too. 2.) Yes, and I want to have different sets of trusted users to change between 3.) The alternative would be adding a tag to the follow list? 4.) WoT should be mine and applicable anywhere through nostr. 5.) Client would publish to relays, then it can be downloaded from anyone. That's enough, no need for DVMs.
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Thanks. I’ll read shortly. Sorry to miss you on corny chat. Wd love to hear your thoughts on the Sovereign part of WoT. Here’s a nostr link to the article. Hope that works better. nostr:note1437m6fpdcwxurnufzwzj4ztylqw66slug5teza7xllm4slnsamescpftp5
1. Sovereign WoT enables you and your community to identify who is the most trustworthy, and in what context, to curate content, facts, and information. 2. Proxy indicators of trust have their uses but they are a crutch that we must wean ourselves off of. Explicit trust attestations are essential. 3. Explicit trust must be contextual. A nostr follows list can be loosely translated / interpreted as “Alice trusts Bob to curate (or maybe merely to create) nostr content for her nostr feed.” Context should have an action and a category. Examples: “Alice trusts Bob to recommend movies (the action) in the category of sci-fi (the category)” or “Alice trusts Bob to edit her Wikifreedia articles (the action) in the category of economics (the category).” Or “Alice trusts Bob to edit ontologies (the action) in all WoT-related categories (the categories)” 4. Sovereign WoT must be portable. Not limited by nostr clients. Not even limited by nostr. 5. ANY and ALL of these and more. Sovereign WoT must be portable beyond nostr.