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If a tutor builds a strong profile with years of lessons and good reviews, could they take that reputation to another Nostr client if Lumen disappeared tomorrow?
Very interesting indeed .
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That is exactly the part I keep thinking about. Different Nostr clients often connect to different sets of relays, so portable reputation would not happen automatically. A review might still exist somewhere on Nostr, but a new client has to know where to find it. NIP 65 can help by advertising the relays a user normally reads from and writes to, but the reputation events themselves would still need a common format and enough replication across relays. If Lumen gets that part right, a tutor's reputation could potentially survive even if the original application disappears. That would be a very powerful use of Nostr.
The part that interests me most is not the marketplace itself, but whether reputation becomes portable too.
If a tutor builds a strong profile with years of lessons and good reviews, could they take that reputation to another Nostr client if Lumen disappeared tomorrow?
To me, that would be the real advantage over a traditional tutoring platform. Identity is already portable with Nostr. Making reputation portable would be much more powerful.
The difficult part seems to be preventing fake reviews and Sybil abuse without turning reputation back into a centralized service.
I would be very interested to see how Lumen approaches that.