Listening to @Shawn interview @OpnState on @Trust Revolution and got intrigued by POLIS, Taiwan’s transparent governance platform, led by former Minister Audrey Tang. I think we can (and should, and eventually will) implement something like POLIS on nostr. First, we need basic infrastructure to support decentralized personalized web of trust metrics. By infrastructure, I mean a marketplace of third party providers of personalized trust metrics. @Vertex is one example. My vision is for Brainstorm to become another. And I’d love to see more third party providers develop over time. Brainstorm will communicate trust metrics in a variety of ways, one of which will be @Vitor Pamplona ‘s NIP-85, Trusted Assertions. The most important trust metric in NIP-85 is “rank” which is a number between 0 and 100. For Brainstorm-generated Trust Assertions (kind 30382 events), the “rank” score will be supplied by the GrapeRank score. So imagine an ecosystem where every user has the opportunity to generate personalized trust metrics, including a “rank” metric which reliably screens out bots based on your trusted community. Could this be a building block for a nostr-POLIS? Yes. Absolutely.

Trust Revolution • S01E12 OpnState ‒ Global financial control: AML’s hidden cost • Watch on Fountain

OpnState, a pseudonymous civil servant and former corporate banker, joins Shawn to expose the hidden mechanisms of global financial standards and t...

GM nostr 🌞 ☕️

What Orwell describes in1984 is a diseased epistemology. O’Brien, the antagonist, challenges our protagonist Winston Smith with the idea that nothing is knowable — how do you *know* that whatever you think is true is really true?? Winston has no real response to this. So … may as well accept whatever Big Brother says, bc at least you’ll have company, and besides, what other option is there?? 🤡

Anyone tried OpenHands on their vibe coded nostr projects? #askNostr

Just tried GPT-5 on windsurf. Impressive.

Leaning more than I ever wanted to know about java survivor space rotation #vibecoding

Haven’t watched this yet but I want to … reposting so I can find it later! View quoted note →

Marco @vinney...axkl Agreement hash: 55af15c369f40c586d0316d26a6da00614e50a5251b49e0de11d984935e5295e

Claude Sonnet 4 telling me I made “a classic Unix command line gotcha”

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. @Big Bad John 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.

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Citadel Dispatch • CD167: PIP - VERTEX WEB OF TRUST • Listen on Fountain

Vertex is an open source nostr web of trust provider. Webs of trust are a method of quantifying verifiable reputations for spam mitigation, user di...

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