WoT may rely heavily today on follows, but follows is not the only trust-relevant data we have to work with. Meeting someone in real life and signing a suitable attestation will be another important source of data for WoT. And there will be a thousand other inputs too.

Haha nope but if they were compromised, we need a social proof method to address the problem, something I wrote about here:

Looks like you have a list of 14 music genres and anyone can use your system to tag with those genres — is that right? Are you tagging artists or songs (or both?)

HPM — tell us more about the WoT music scorer you mention. What do you want to see scored - songs? Artists? Will this be for users to find new music?

How about a decentralized list of musicians, organized by genre, where the list of genres is also a decentralized list? Anyone can add an item to either list, and we use WoT to make sure spammers don’t screw it all up.

GM Shawn! ☕️ 🌞

nipstr.com … already taken 🤷🏻‍♂️

YES!!!! 🤣

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.

OnlyNostr

is this the book you mentioned during our #wotathon call? Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks Rais, Morillo, Gilman, Barth https://www.amazon.com/Zero-Trust-Networks/dp/1492096598/ref=sr_1_3

Community curation via NostrHub.io will prove itself to be a much more agile and responsive method to reflect changes like this one.