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That’s the people I want to get updates from not the ones I trust. The ones I trust are not properly represented by my follows although there is an overlap. With that out of the way, I’m talking about Web of Trust used as a filter for content: it’s only great for users that have a established follower base, not great at all for an organic user who just joined who can’t get visibility into their posts. Ask any new user how great Web of Trust is: never mind you probably won’t see their answers if you have such filtering active.

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Vitor Pamplona _@vitorpamplona.com 2 months ago

I agree, but that is not a problem of web of trust, it is a problem of that specific implementation. Filtering content by WoT can be great for new users too. We just need to get rid of this idea that WoT only means reputation-based algos. In other words, the filter cut off should be on the negative score, not on zero.

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Dikaios1517 dikaios1517@nostrplebs.com 2 months ago

I think the confusion comes in because of a disconnect on what is meant by "trust" in this context. It's not that, "I would trust this person with my life," or "I would trust this person to not to rug-pull me." Rather, it's simply, "I trust that this npub will continue posting notes that I will be interested in seeing." And as soon as they prove that trust to be misplaced, you 86 them from your follow list so you no longer see their notes.

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vinney...axkl vcavallo@vinneycavallo.com 2 months ago

you guys are both only thinking about social feeds. re-consider the above discussion in the context of

Catallax - A Protocol for Pseudonymous Contract Work Economies

Catallax is an open protocol that enables pseudonymous contract work economies. It runs over Nostr, Bitcoin and Cashu ecash for censorship-resistan...

for instance

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Dikaios1517 dikaios1517@nostrplebs.com 2 months ago

This looks like something which might bootstrap using web-of-trust, but really will end up relying on proven reputation, with web-of-trust for filtering out those trying to build fake reputation attestations.

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Globe99 globe99@nostrcheck.me 2 months ago

So I guess I would argue the situation in which your follow list doesn't have a strong connection to some notion of "trust" is probably a pretty minority user behavior. Because basically what you're saying then is I want to have an information feed full of people whose trust is questionable?