Almost done rereading Orwell’s 1984.

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@Pip the WoT guy are you seeing much in the way of “rank sink” (aka PageRank island) being exploited by bad actors? I haven’t done a thorough analysis but even with a damping factor of 0.85 I’ve seen it crop up sporadically.

Great episode of @CITADEL DISPATCH with @ODELL and @Pip the WoT guy discussing the most difficult and important open problem in all of freedom tech: web of trust. I’m glad to see centrality algos like #pagerank (personalized as well as global) make their way into nostr via 3rd party WoT services like @Vertex . Do any nostr alternatives run centrality algos? Nope, not yet, not that I’m aware of. @John Carvalho promises that Pubky will — someday — but I’ll believe it when I see it. For those who don’t know, PageRank is a simple but extraordinarily powerful centrality algorithm that deserves higher visibility in the nostr ecosystem. It’s how Google eliminated spam from keyword search in 1998. In other words, PageRank launched a trillion dollar company. For calculating WoT over nostr, PageRank is the next step beyond my follows + their follows. https://fountain.fm/episode/ybia0tfYnoavP1T8qOdO

Excited to see @cloud fodder taking @relaytools to the next level! Many improvements with the next release! 👀 View quoted note →

I’m working on Brainstorm now so that the owner of the instance can set it up to calculate personalized WoT scores for friends. Later, for customers. Graph databases like #neo4j really do make certain tasks a lot easier than if we were limited to sql or other non-graph dbs. Here’s the neo4j cypher query that I use to update the number of hops away any given pubkey is from a customer node on the follows graph. I just iterate this same query 8 or 9 times until numUpdates is zero and it’s done. MATCH (c1:NostrUserWotMetricsCard {observer_pubkey:’${CUSTOMER_PUBKEY}'})-[:SPECIFIC_INSTANCE]-(:SetOfNostrUserWotMetricsCards)-[:WOT_METRICS_CARDS]-(u1:NostrUser)-[:FOLLOWS]->(u2:NostrUser)-[:WOT_METRICS_CARDS]->(:SetOfNostrUserWotMetricsCards)-[:SPECIFIC_INSTANCE]->(c2:NostrUserWotMetricsCard {observer_pubkey:'${CUSTOMER_PUBKEY}'}) WHERE c2.hops - c1.hops > 1 SET c2.hops = c1.hops + 1 RETURN count(c2) as numUpdates

how can I mark a report for deletion? #asknostr

Possibly the greatest scene from Andor. “I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. … So what do I sacrifice? EVERYTHING!”