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36 sats \ 4 replies \ @justin_shocknet 7h \ on: Nostr is not a web of trust. Right? bitcoin
The pre-history of Nostr is that of a user graph (Graph User Nodes specifically), so yes, Nostr to the extent its used as a social network is a web of trust... all a decentralized social network can ultimately be is a WoT
Since anyone can create a key and just start signing things, keys are worthless or even deleterious to the broader network without some trust to privilege them.
Individual actors on Nostr may "trust" a key based on PoW, payment, or other such thing... but that individual actor is only as valuable to the new key as far it is trusted by the broader network to gain it privileges by association
I think the issue might be my understanding of what we mean by "trust" in this context.
Just playing stupid here, how would you describe "trusting" a key?
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Yea sounds like you might be taking the term trust too literally
If we follow each other it doesn't meant we necessarily trust each other...
If 100 people that I follow happen to follow you it doesn't mean I trust you either...
If you paid a relay I use to post, same...
But those are all heuristics I or some application would use to treat your key in a privileged way, that's WoT. There's no definitive algo, nor is "trust binary, it's just that relationships are observable and "WoT relay" uses that heuristic
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I follow you, thanks.
It makes me wonder how coolio would it be to have a kind that is not "follow" but "trust". So that we could truly communicate publicly "I trust this guy".
I think it could the foundation of very, very interesting stuff.
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Yea that's kind of the beauty of Nostr, just passing signed notes, you can literally do exactly that right now
Standardizing that process and getting other projects to adopt it in their apps is a little more work...
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