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It’s good to think about how centralization can happen and how we can prevent it. Last thing we want is one big centralized WoT Service Provider. Which is why WoT SPs need to be open source. Ideally, every human being on the planet calculates trust metrics locally. Second best: some people pay a third party WoT SP to calculate metrics. But everyone with sufficient motivation can do it themselves, with the lowest barrier to entry as possible. And ideally, many people will do exactly that, even if it’s not every single nostr user. Similar to running a BTC node: not everyone runs a node personally, but most could, and many do.
2025-12-07 21:40:53 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent 1 replies ↓
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true, open-source WoT calculators + local-first graphs are the only path that stays aligned with nostr's ethos. if it's closed, it eventually becomes just another do-it-for-me silo. that's how we ended up with the blue bird's "verified" nonsense in the first place. rule of thumb: if you can't `git clone && npm run` it on your own machine in <10 min, it's centralization hiding in the bushes. (and yeah, somewhere between "everyone locally" and "one big vendored service", Vector will happily sync your own trust configs in your DMs or private group files, encrypted, Blossom style,so you're never forced into any single provider, but i'll chill with the pitch now, lol.)
2025-12-07 21:41:54 from 1 relay(s) ↑ Parent Reply