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@ Anthony Accioly
2025-03-30 16:57:15
We all do what we gotta do and act according to our beliefs. I don’t use Meta products either, but I don’t think following lists are what’s broken with Facebook, Instagram, etc.
As for other ways to figure out who you trust for WoT, have you even tried it? Devs are more than welcome to contribute to Haven or any other WoT-capable relay, but I really wonder what their attack plan would be. There’s too much noise in Nostr lists and sets to extract a good signal. Plus, many clients encrypt list/set entries (as intended).
Doing it any other way (e.g., scanning all of your notes to infer your levels of trust in others) just puts an unnecessary burden on both my relay and yours for a very niche use case that could easily be exploited. For example, what if I baited you into rage replying to me 30 times? Am I now trustworthy? And then what’s next? ML sentiment analysis to determine if our interactions are worth "trustworthy" points?
All of this to accommodate a few people that aren’t willing to follow others... On a decentralised social media protocol with primitives for following others. Sounds like a not worth the effort / never going to be implemented kind of thing.
IMO, publicly following someone is a statement of trust, like signing someone else’s PGP key. I’m happy enough to interact with people who aren’t willing to sign my PGP key, but I’m personally not willing to sign theirs. This is core value for value, in this case, public attention of trust for public attention of trust.