no

I am not sure I fully understand what a "personalized trust metric" entails, but it sounds like a hard pass at worst, or a tool to detect vanity users at best.

The initial goal is not to be a popularity contest, but to screen out the really obvious spam, bots, etc from everyone else. After that, the goal is for your community to help you discover the content that you’re interested in. Want your grapevine to tell you who are the experts or have special interest in some specific topic? That’s a personalized (your community, not someone else’s) trust metric.

Ok! First of all, thanks for elaborating! I don't think i'm the target audience. I'm a big fan of letting my community help me discover things, i think that is a great filter! Unless of course it runs as a transparent daemon under my full control, i am skeptical about adding a layer of automated filtering on top of that layer. Especially an automated one. A service like that being free of charge i wouldn't touch with a pole (how could i trust it to be honest). And if any good, i would seek out a sovereign alternative to the payed service.

I am glad you’re skeptical! Which is why brainstorm is open source. You can run your own Brainstorm instance and calculate your own Grapevine (your personalized trust metrics) yourself! I’d love for everyone to do that. But realistically, that won’t happen - well, maybe it will eventually, when it gets slick and easy. But for now it still takes some effort, like running a nostr relay, and not everyone will want to make the effort. Which is why your Brainstorm instance can calculate personalized scores not only for you, but also for your friends, family, community, and/or customers.

Now you have my attention! To answer your initial question: i wouldn't pay for it with money. But happily with time and energy.

You are certainly welcome to run your own brainstorm instance! The repo is here [1], and also linked from the brainstorm instance in my bio. If you decide to run one, let me know - I’ve made some recent changes that are not all in the docs yet. Or if you just want to see how it works, sign up at my brainstorm and I’ll calculate your Grapevine. Currently, you can use personalized metrics at Relay Tools. I’m making metrics available throughout nostr using @Vitor Pamplona's Trusted Assertions NIP. Currently TAs are only adopted experimentally (cc @vinney...axkl ), but TA integration is not terribly complicated — all a client has to do to access Alice’s metrics from the perspective of Bob’s WoT is to pull up the corresponding 30382 note — so my focus now is getting TA integration into a handful of clients. [1]

GitHub

GitHub - Pretty-Good-Freedom-Tech/brainstorm: a personalized Webs of Trust nostr relay featuring the Grapevine

a personalized Webs of Trust nostr relay featuring the Grapevine - Pretty-Good-Freedom-Tech/brainstorm