straycat
david

https://straycat.brainstorm.social

neurologist and freedom tech maxi
Co-founder @ NosFabrica
🍇 Grapevine, 🧠⚡️Brainstorm

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2026-02-02 01:11:38 UTC

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I took two philosophy of science classes from him as an undergrad. Two of my favs 🤓

2026-01-31 03:49:52 UTC

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Primus.nostr1.com by
@npub10np…tl5h and
@npub1cgc…2ndy

2026-01-29 15:46:54 UTC

15 minutes! 😃
#note12km…s5kc

2026-01-28 21:44:03 UTC

#wotathon community call less than 24 hours away!
🫂
#note12km…s5kc

2026-01-27 19:00:27 UTC

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If you’d like to be an alpha tester for our rebuilt brainstorm, I’ll DM you the url. Once you click go, you should start seeing scores on amethyst within 20 min, maybe less.

2026-01-24 17:44:27 UTC

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WoT has multiple uses. The first is getting rid of the obvious bots and bad actors who may want to spam your app with junk. Centrality algorithms like GrapeRank or PageRank have a much more extensive reach than follows of follows, and are effective and simple enough to implement if and when spam becomes a problem on your app. Ideally you’ll farm out calculation of personalized trust metrics to a WoT Service Provider like Brainstorm, Vertex, or Relatr. @npub142g…xrj0 and other clients have already started doing this using @npub1gcx…nj5z's Trusted Assertions NIP (which @npub180c…h6w6 just merged) to empower the user and avoid SP vendor lock-in. Cultivation of the ecosystem of WoT SPs to make WoT metrics both *personalized* and *portable* is the primary goal of the #wotathon — the @npub1hea…vp8p web of trust hackathon that runs through April. We have weekly community calls on Thursdays; you should join us!
The more challenging and exciting WoT use case will be content discovery. Suppose I want to find songs in some niche musical category by awesome but undiscovered musicians who aren’t on Spotify. Do we want to wait for said musicians to build up 10k followers on nostr? Why wait for that when my trusted, extended community can find exactly the content I want and serve it up to me on a silver platter? This is the type of use case we’re tackling with Brainstorm at @npub1hea…vp8p. This particular use case is being explored in depth by @npub1hqa…t56s. Keep an eye on what he’s up to; it will be relevant to your app. 2026 will be an exciting year for WoT in nostr!
cc @npub1t8p…gkvf
https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

2026-01-24 16:53:59 UTC

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Congrats 😃🥂

2026-01-23 18:30:24 UTC

I can’t wait!! 🫂
#note1n04…n9g2

2026-01-22 21:09:17 UTC

👀
#note1msa…aj2q

2026-01-22 16:01:53 UTC

We’re live!
https://zoom.us/j/91801428092?pwd=k5Gl2pYKX1X7GXPpiEdsEDaGIYsdvK.1
also on zap.stream/nosfabrica
#note1m85…uv88

2026-01-22 15:16:02 UTC

Community call in 45 minutes!
#note1m85…uv88

2026-01-22 06:36:23 UTC

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Haha ok, it’ll cost you 69 sats tho

2026-01-22 06:33:49 UTC

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I see you’re using Trusted Assertions to determine relay operator trust as part of your relay trust score calculations!! 🔥🔥 👍🏻

2026-01-22 06:27:17 UTC

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Good point. One of the biggest challenges in WoT is understanding the problem itself. What exactly are we trying to solve?

2026-01-21 23:41:57 UTC

What are the big picture, WoT-related topics, questions, issues that are on people’s minds? Off the top of my head, here are a few:
1. Where should the trust signal come from? Follows, engagements, attestations, something else?
2. What are the different categories of trust? (And who decides what those categories are?)
3. Is it possible — or even desirable, under any circumstances — for standards, protocols, ontologies, etc to be created and actively managed in the absence of a designated maintainer, committee, etc? If so, how?
4. What are the different ways we should communicate scores from WoT Service Providers to nostr clients?
5. What WoT tools and features are needed before we can attract normies to nostr? WoT scores that are personalized, portable, contextual … what else?
6. How do we make WoT scores contextual?
7. How do we convey confidence in any given WoT score?
8. How can we monetize WoT?
9. How do we empower users to “choose your own algorithm”?
And here are two we discussed on our weekly #wotathon call last week:
1. Is WoT leading us towards a Black Mirror dystopia?
2. Is it OK to attach a number to trust? Why or why not?
What other questions can you think of? We want to hear from you!
cc: @npub1hea…vp8p

2026-01-21 16:27:57 UTC

One day until our next #WoTathon community call!
#note1m85…uv88

2026-01-20 05:04:40 UTC

Fiat: algos are hidden 🙈👎🏻
Freedom tech: algos are out in plain sight 😄👏🏻
How can we choose our algos if we have no idea how they work?

2026-01-20 03:01:54 UTC

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I just started recalculating your Grapevine and it's now in the process of publishing your 30382 events (slowly). Let me know if you don't see them showing up.
Have you been able to see trust scores on Amethyst?

2026-01-15 15:05:08 UTC

#wotathon Community Call is less than an hour away!!
#note1jrr…ezt3

2026-01-14 17:48:24 UTC

Don’t forget — next #wotathon community call is less than 24 hours away!
#note1jrr…ezt3

2026-01-14 03:24:51 UTC

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Just realized I can add people to the group

2026-01-14 03:12:53 UTC

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@npub1t8p…gkvf — help @npub1yn8…6pzj get set up on our WoTathon signal chat!

2026-01-14 02:51:48 UTC

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Glad to see you active in the space! And glad you’re using NostrHub 🔥

2026-01-13 17:13:14 UTC

This was a fun and interesting discussion!
💜🍇🧠⚡️
#note1y4z…lxm8

2026-01-13 00:26:03 UTC

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🎯

2026-01-12 23:57:41 UTC

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Upon rereading your previous message, it seems to me you’re saying the default should ALWAYS be: don’t display them.
Unless you have an exception in mind? If so, what is it?
I’m trying to pin you down bc you advocate for a very generic, very widely-encompassing rule and when I ask WHY this is your stance, you just walk through one specific use case where you don’t show trust scores. And then you extrapolate from the specific case to the general rule (never show scores by default) without justification. I suspect your true motivation is that users will tell you “you can’t put a number to trust.” Which is not true — we can and we do. Still, it’s an understandable (albeit vaguely defined) sentiment, one that MANY users will have, and we should respect our users. So your solution is to tell them “I agree, we can’t put a number to trust, we would never do that! Look, no numbers!!” And yet, putting numbers to trust is *exactly* what we’re doing. It is dishonest to pretend we’re not — hence disrespectful at a very deep level to our users — and many users will sense the dishonesty.

2026-01-12 21:56:32 UTC

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I’m not saying the default should be to display ALL the scores ALL the time. I’m saying sometimes we do, sometimes we don’t. No sense in showering the user with a deluge of confusing numbers for no purpose.
But you’re saying we should never ever display raw trust scores. We should ALWAYS by default hide them under the hood. There are ZERO use cases for showing a 0-100 Trust Score next to a user profile.
Am I misunderstanding your position? Is there at least one use case you can think of where you think we SHOULD show a raw Trust Score by default?

2026-01-12 15:47:08 UTC

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That’s my point.
Me: there are times when you don’t want to display the scores and times when you do want to display the scores.
You: I can think of a use case where you don’t need to display the scores. Therefore nobody should display the scores, for any use case, ever.

2026-01-12 00:35:43 UTC

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I feel like our discussions too often fall into the following pattern:
Me: we’re building a new thing called an automobile. It will get you from city A to city B. It’s awesome.
You: The bicycles I sell are great for getting around town. No one needs automobiles.
Me: ok. Let’s have both. Bikes for short distances, automobiles for long distances. It’s not either-or, it’s both-and.
You: For the specific use case that I’m focused on, getting around town, bikes are awesome. Therefore automobiles have zero use cases. No one will need them, ever, for anything.
🤷🏻‍♂️

2026-01-11 20:05:11 UTC

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cc @npub1t8p…gkvf

2026-01-11 19:50:08 UTC

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Dawn would you ever wanna hop on a #wotathon Thursday community call and take 5 minutes to tell all the devs what you want, what you’re getting, and what you’re not getting out of WoT?

2026-01-11 15:42:06 UTC

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Also: there are use cases that go beyond filtering and sorting in the background.
Suppose someone you don’t follow DMs you. How do you know whether this DM is worth your time and attention? One method is just to hide the DM if the WoT score is below some cutoff. But what should be the cutoff? There will never be one right answer. So a better method is to show the WoT score next to the author, obtained from Trusted Assertions as the 0-100 rank metric, like Amethyst is doing. The end user can decide whether a score of 10 or 50 or 95 is worth looking at. Maybe I have a lot of free time today, so I’ll read the message if rank is above 10. But tomorrow I’m busier so it’ll have to be 90 to catch my eye. And in the case of personalized GrapeRank, a 50 for me may not be a 50 for you, because you and I may have selected different GrapeRank parameters. My “rigor” parameter may be set to a low value (by my choice), so when I see a score of 50 on amethyst, it means “this user is followed/trusted by 5 moderately trusted users”, whereas your “rigor” may be set to a high value, so when you see the same score of 50 on amethyst it carries more weight, bc it means “this user is followed/trusted by 100 highly trusted users”.
We can’t give users control over their user experience if our philosophy is to hide the number crunching and make all the decisions for them.
At the same time, we ALSO need to make it super easy for the end user. If they don’t want to look under the hood, they don’t have to. Which is why GrapeRank comes with default preset parameters. But showing turn numbers, like I described here and like amethyst is doing, will oftentimes be better than simply filtering and sorting under the hood.

2026-01-11 15:08:18 UTC

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It’s easy for us to underestimate how much work it takes for devs to integrate these scores into their clients. Sure, a dev could roll out a new feature using the scores to sort content. But step 1 is simply to import the scores, make sure they’re being imported correctly, and educate the end user that this new tool is available, here is what it is, here is how it works.
The whole point of sovereignty is to put you in charge of your user experience. Which means putting you in charge of the algos that sort your content. Which means users need to be aware what algos are available and how they work. If we just sort content and say “trust me bro, we’re sorting it in the best way possible, please don’t examine the numbers or ask for details about how it works or look under the hood” — that’s the opposite of what we want to achieve.

2026-01-11 14:47:49 UTC

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2026-01-11 14:41:43 UTC

The Brainstorm prototype at straycat.brainstorm.social was down but is back up now. If you sign up, I can calculate your Grapevine — your personalized and portable WoT scores — that can be viewed on Amethyst. CAVEAT: it’s super slow, which is one reason why we’re rebuilding it from scratch at @nprofile…xza3. On the prototype I trigger the calculations manually, and the server can process a handful of customers in a day. The rebuilt Brainstorm will be better in a lot of ways, including much faster. For now, sign up on the prototype and I’ll DM you when your Grapevine is ready!

2026-01-10 00:08:12 UTC

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You sort and filter based on numbers which you’re using as a proxy for trust. The act of calculating and using personalized PageRank means you are ranking.

2026-01-09 23:05:28 UTC

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They can, but they shouldn’t, as I argue in my article. Why not? Main reason: portability.
#naddr1qq…ey5u

2026-01-09 22:38:33 UTC

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For starters, the nostr ecosystem needs WoT Service Providers that calculate WoT scores that are *personalized* and *portable*. I’ve written about this in several of my long form posts over the past few months. Developing this ecosystem is the main thrust of the WoT hackathon at @npub1hea…vp8p, aka our #wotathon that goes through April. Importantly, these WoT Service Providers must be open source, which means you’ll have the option to do all the calculations yourself, as your own SP. Just like you can run your own BTC node and nostr relay if you so desire.
https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

2026-01-09 22:29:44 UTC

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TrustRank evolved from PageRank. It was inevitable that it would become evil because the entire endeavor was a centralized, global scoring system from the very beginning. The solution is not to get rid of algorithms or scores, but to personalize them.

2026-01-09 22:13:47 UTC

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Do you consider mute lists to be “censorship”? I don’t, and I’m guessing you don’t either. In which case: why do you consider the WoT scores on Amethyst to fit into the censorship category?
I’d argue it’s censorship if it’s centralized, based on global trust scores. And yes, Bluesky is centralized. But if the system is personalized, like a mute list that you manage yourself or the metrics on Amethyst that are personalized to the end user, then no, it’s not censorship.
I should probably point out that the scores on amethyst are calculated using open source software that you can run yourself. You can delegate the calculations to someone else if you wish, but it’s not necessary.

2026-01-09 22:05:13 UTC

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You want to use these scores in the background but pretend like you’re not? So you can tell people you’re not objectifying them even when that’s exactly what you’re doing?

2026-01-09 22:00:08 UTC

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Google’s PageRank was magic. I remember when it first came out. Keyword search went from useless to amazing overnight.
But Google always calculated *global* PageRank. Meaning the PR scores were as seen by Google. The web: as viewed, as filtered, as scored, as judged —- by Google. The Freedom Tech way is for the algos and scores and point of view to be personalized to the end user. Be your own Google, so to speak.

2026-01-09 21:53:11 UTC

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The Primus relay (primus.nostr1.com) uses GrapeRank to power its WoT (aka WOA, Web of Access).
🍇 🧠 ⚡️
@npub10np…tl5h

2026-01-09 21:38:41 UTC

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Or checked out any of the cool projects people are working on? 😃
https://www.kanbanstr.com/#/board/be7bf5de068c1d842ed34a7c270507ec940f5ea51671cfd062a95e9d09420d0a/802f4072-8c60-4eaa-bbb8-5f086d40e585

2026-01-09 21:36:47 UTC

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Have you joined any of our weekly #wotathon community calls?

2026-01-09 16:59:39 UTC

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Some people think bitcoin is evil because “money is the root of all evil.” But to them, money means fiat. They don’t realize that the evils of fiat should not be assumed to apply to decentralized money.
Same thing with reputation. Centralized scoring systems are very Black Mirror. But decentralized scoring systems, where scores are personalized rather than global, belong in a different category.

2026-01-09 16:36:38 UTC

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Amethyst reads personalized trust metrics published using the Trusted Assertions NIP. We’re rebuilding the original Brainstorm prototype (which calculates your personalized GrapeRank scores and publishes them as Trusted Assertions) and ought to have the new version of Brainstorm ready for beta testing soon. 😃

2026-01-09 16:33:53 UTC

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We’re rebuilding the original Brainstorm prototype and ought to have the new version ready for beta testing soon. 😃

2026-01-08 16:03:50 UTC

We’re live!
#note1nfk…e97z

2026-01-08 16:02:24 UTC

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working for me now

2026-01-08 15:36:20 UTC

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It should be fixed when we start broadcasting 🤞🏻

2026-01-08 15:03:47 UTC

#wotathon community call in one hour!!
#note1nfk…e97z

2026-01-07 20:20:46 UTC

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Just signed up on meetup 💜🫂

2026-01-05 13:48:34 UTC

GM all good people!☕️🌞🫂
#note1nfk…e97z

2026-01-02 15:32:51 UTC

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Nice article. You’re addressing the exact same question I address in this article, which is: where does the trust signal come from? Zimmerman’s approach failed because it relied exclusively on what I call *explicit attestations of trust* — in the case of PGP, key signing ceremonies. As you point out, nostr adds the missing ingredient: follows, mutes, zaps, reactions, replies, and other examples of ordinary social behaviour, what I call *proxy indicators of trust*.
In my article I argue that we need both. And if you follow the line of thinking all the way through to the end, you arrive at the notion of *interpretation* of social signals and an algo like GrapeRank that knows what to do with interpreted data.
#naddr1qq…lpgz

2026-01-01 18:05:45 UTC

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@npub1klk…x3vt you should join our @npub1hea…vp8p web of trust hackathon! Our goal is to encourage an ecosystem within nostr of Web of Trust Service Providers — Brainstorm, Vertex, Relatr being a few examples — that calculate *personalized* (not global!) trust metrics and make them available for consumption throughout nostr.
After PGP, nostr is the logical next step. (And to think: it only took 3 decades! Lol) And right now, tools that provide personalized, portable, and contextual WoT is the next step in pursuit of Phil Zimmerman’s vision. We need all the help we can get to make this happen now, not 30 years from now!!

2025-12-31 17:05:48 UTC

👀
#note17x6…njs3

2025-12-29 15:09:25 UTC

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You can see archives of previous community calls on our WoTathon page, just scroll to the bottom 😊
https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon

2025-12-27 23:20:25 UTC

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Here is the Graphical Organization of Decentralized List Items NIP:
https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqvn8wfshq6rfvdskctt0wfnkzmnf0fshg6t0dckk7e3dv3jkxetww3exzmrf0fjkgttvd9ehgttfw3jk6uc9u9tvf#graphical-organization-of-decentralized-list-items

2025-12-27 23:19:45 UTC

The WoT Sandbox by @npub19ma…axkl
at https://dlist-ui.netlify.app/ is very cool. The Decentralized Lists NIP and the Trusted Lists NIP are each implemented and functioning! 😃 This includes support for replaceable 39998 and 39999 events in addition to 9998 and 9999 events. You can make your own lists, other people can add to them, anyone can upvote/downvote, and synthesize them into Trusted Lists!
I’ve been using it to create the basic relationship types necessary to incorporate the next NIP into the sandbox: Graphical Organization of Decentralized List Items. This will allow us to organize Decentralized Lists into complex structures like this one for the list of dogs. Very exciting! 🔥
https://i.nostr.build/fmfj2WkNVh8YnNcq.png

2025-12-26 15:24:57 UTC

GM all good people! ☕️ 🌞
#wotathon community call in a little over half an hour!
#note1grg…lxlf

2025-12-25 21:15:32 UTC

#wotathon community call tomorrow!
#note1grg…lxlf

2025-12-25 15:15:03 UTC

GM nostr! Merry Christmas to all!🎄

2025-12-25 15:13:04 UTC

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Merry Christmas! 🎄

2025-12-25 15:12:27 UTC

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Merry Christmas! 🎄

2025-12-24 03:26:42 UTC

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NIP-51 is for when you want to maintain the list forever. Decentralized Lists is for when you want your WoT to take over list curation.

2025-12-20 01:35:31 UTC

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Nostr + web of trust is going to launch the resurrection of symbolic AI. Not academia.
You heard it here first! 🕺🏻🤓

2025-12-19 03:51:28 UTC

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WoT may rely heavily today on follows, but follows is not the only trust-relevant data we have to work with. Meeting someone in real life and signing a suitable attestation will be another important source of data for WoT. And there will be a thousand other inputs too.
#naddr1qq…lpgz

2025-12-19 02:44:40 UTC

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Haha nope but if they were compromised, we need a social proof method to address the problem, something I wrote about here:
#naddr1qp…xcp0

2025-12-19 02:00:41 UTC

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Looks like you have a list of 14 music genres and anyone can use your system to tag with those genres — is that right? Are you tagging artists or songs (or both?)

2025-12-19 00:10:12 UTC

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HPM — tell us more about the WoT music scorer you mention. What do you want to see scored - songs? Artists? Will this be for users to find new music?

2025-12-18 23:15:49 UTC

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How about a decentralized list of musicians, organized by genre, where the list of genres is also a decentralized list?
Anyone can add an item to either list, and we use WoT to make sure spammers don’t screw it all up.

2025-12-18 13:14:18 UTC

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GM Shawn! ☕️ 🌞

2025-12-18 03:18:33 UTC

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nipstr.com … already taken 🤷🏻‍♂️

2025-12-18 03:15:54 UTC

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YES!!!! 🤣

2025-12-18 03:01:27 UTC

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OnlyNostr

2025-12-18 01:22:13 UTC

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Community curation via NostrHub.io will prove itself to be a much more agile and responsive method to reflect changes like this one.

2025-12-18 00:43:27 UTC

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Nice! Have you considered covering the drive to move the protocol from github to NostrHub.io? @nprofile…ysyt has started the process of enabling decentralized curation of NIPs using web of trust. Early days, but exciting stuff!

2025-12-17 22:50:37 UTC

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Let’s do it on NostrHub.io and let WoT sort it out
@npub1man…n9tn

2025-12-16 01:12:00 UTC

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These Nostr watches are limited edition. Get them while you can!!!

2025-12-15 21:13:06 UTC

Check out this awesome Freedom Tech swag I got from @npub1luv…nmt5 !!!
https://i.nostr.build/cniaP79DTcGly9GX.jpg
https://i.nostr.build/Wso7CeoEGROsls8R.jpg

2025-12-14 20:54:56 UTC

Custom NIP: Decentralized Organization of items on a DList (decentralized list) using a directed acyclic graph.
https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsqvn8wfshq6rfvdskctt0wfnkzmnf0fshg6t0dckk7e3dv3jkxetww3exzmrf0fjkgttvd9ehgttfw3jk6uc9u9tvf

2025-12-14 20:46:47 UTC

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Then that’s not what trust is.

2025-12-14 20:27:35 UTC

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That’s true if you build the aforementioned confusion into the definition of trust. Which you don’t have to do.

2025-12-14 20:18:51 UTC

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That’s true if you define “trust” so narrowly as to make the word useless. Or meaningless. Or both.

2025-12-14 20:16:06 UTC

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That’s quite the sweeping statement! Not sure what you mean.

2025-12-14 20:14:37 UTC

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You’re absolutely right about the need for a vast directed graph. Which is why the Brainstorm prototype uses a native graph database (neo4j) to keep track of follows, mutes and reports.
@npub1fjq…leku is incorporating neo4j into his Orly relay. Also check out @npub10mt…27hf ‘s Banyan relay which uses neo4j and which is a project for the @npub1hea…vp8p #wotathon:
https://www.kanbanstr.com/#/board/be7bf5de068c1d842ed34a7c270507ec940f5ea51671cfd062a95e9d09420d0a/802f4072-8c60-4eaa-bbb8-5f086d40e585/card/2baae6e6-8362-43de-a0ce-f953af061c54

2025-12-14 19:54:39 UTC

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Whenever someone points out that follows does not equal trust, reach for this article.
TL/dr: For any question of interest, WoT should use any and every piece of data that is available and relevant to the question at hand.
Should we use follows? Yes.
Should we use explicit, unambiguous "trust" events? Yes.
It's not either-or; it's both-and.
#naddr1qq…88s5

2025-12-13 21:36:43 UTC

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WoT based means we need your WoT Sandbox so we can create and manage Decentralized Lists. Let's see, looking at the video ... we could use a DList for settings, a DList for kindFilters, and a DList for defaults? Which are the parts you want your WoT to help you manage?
https://www.kanbanstr.com/#/board/be7bf5de068c1d842ed34a7c270507ec940f5ea51671cfd062a95e9d09420d0a/802f4072-8c60-4eaa-bbb8-5f086d40e585/card/8718590f-e546-4ee0-aaf9-e3ea23ebdf72

2025-12-13 21:29:55 UTC

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👀
#nevent1q…vuvy

2025-12-13 18:45:00 UTC

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Nice! 🛹

2025-12-12 21:02:08 UTC

To all @npub1hea…vp8p #wotathon participants:
Don’t forget to check out our 50 million Satoshi WoT Hackathon Project Board at Kanbanstr! Peruse #wotathon projects, join a team, or tell the world what you’re building!
https://www.kanbanstr.com/#/board/be7bf5de068c1d842ed34a7c270507ec940f5ea51671cfd062a95e9d09420d0a/802f4072-8c60-4eaa-bbb8-5f086d40e585

2025-12-12 19:20:18 UTC

Anyone remember Jed McCaleb? I learned this week he’s working on artificial generalized intelligence and building a space station, among other things.
https://astera.org/team/jed-mccaleb/
https://astera.org/neuroscientist-doris-tsao-joins-astera-to-lead-its-new-neuroscience-program/

2025-12-12 16:02:39 UTC

If you want to enable Alice to rate Bob along any arbitrary context, here is a powerful, extensible NIP you can use. It is also a demonstration of how to use the Curated Lists NIP as a building block.
https://nostrhub.io/naddr1qvzqqqrcvypzpef89h53f0fsza2ugwdc3e54nfpun5nxfqclpy79r6w8nxsk5yp0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqqrf3h2unpw3jkgttrdah8getcw36kzmpdwfshg6twvaesncxv5k

2025-12-12 01:40:47 UTC

I’ve added some custom NIPs to illustrate the power of Decentralized Lists, using DLists to keep track of contexts (which is essentially an ontology) and using those to manage a system for context-aware ratings. All using kind 9998 and 9999 events, nothing else.
https://nostrhub.io/npub1u5njm6g5h5cpw4wy8xugu62e5s7f6fnysv0sj0z3a8rengt2zqhsxrldq3

2025-12-11 16:45:29 UTC

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#note18vh…emle

2025-12-11 16:01:15 UTC

We’re live!!
#note1k5a…hnzm

2025-12-10 22:27:07 UTC

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2025-12-10 15:22:15 UTC

Reminder that our 4th @npub1hea…vp8p #wotathon weekly community call is one day away! As usual it will be Thursday (tomorrow) at 4 PM UTC, 11 AM Eastern.
We hope to hear from @npub1zl3…jajh and @npub19ma…axkl talk about their use of Trusted Assertions for their projects. @npub1man…n9tn has proposed some changes to TAs (check his timeline for links to the relevant specs) and it would be great to get feedback from the community on those changes.
We love TAs but that’s not our only focus! If anyone has a particular topic of interest or a project to discuss during the call, mention it in the Signal chat or let one of us know — @npub1t8p…gkvf would be best since he’s our MC 🎤!
https://nosfabrica.com/wotathon/

2025-12-10 15:08:40 UTC

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Thursday!