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neurologist and freedom tech maxi Co-founder @ NosFabrica 🍇 Grapevine, 🧠⚡️Brainstorm
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straycat 3 months ago
Imagine using the Decentralized Lists custom NIP to create a list of “pubkeys whose npubs I’ve verified with the owner in detail in the flesh in real life”. Maybe a shorter title but the description could be as detailed as desired. Then use Trusted Assertions to fetch the “rank” metric and using that to curate the list. There you go, decentralized proof of personhood.
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straycat 3 months ago
To bring WoT to nostr, we need two primitives: 1. a way to ask questions 2. a way to answer them or, stated another way: 1. a way to represent information 2. a way to curate information or, stated another way: 1. the concept graph 2. the grapevine or, stated another way: 1. Decentralized Lists (Custom NIP) 2. NIP-85: Trusted Assertions or, stated another way: 1. math 2. physics
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straycat 3 months ago
Perhaps one of the #WoTathon prizes can be: decentralized curation of a simple list. We would require that personalized trust metrics must be used in the curation, and that it should support any arbitrary list. But the prize could be agnostic regarding which trust metric to use. And also agnostic about how the lists are put together. One method could be my draft NIP: Decentralized Lists. But I’d love to see other methods too. Maybe use an approved NIP like NIP-32. Or maybe do a keyword search of NIP-51 lists and combine the results into a composite list, using the personalized trust metric to weight the NIP-51 list authors. @nosfabrica
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straycat 3 months ago
Listening to @Avi Burra and @Nathan Day on @Plebchain Radio I discovered @Alex Gleason ‘s NostrHub.io and Custom NIPs. I’ve been working on a custom NIP: Decentralized Lists with the @nosfabrica team so decided to move it to NostrHub. Decentralized Lists is designed to be as simple and elegant as possible. Anyone can declare a new list, and anyone can declare an item for any list. The NIP presumes the use of personalized trust metrics to keep out spam, but is agnostic on how exactly to do this. But the GrapeRank metric, calculated by a Brainstorm instance and communicated in the “rank” field of @Vitor Pamplona‘s NIP-85 Trusted Assertions would be a great place to start!