DVMs, NIP-85, NIP-50, even the Primal caching server.
All tried to fill a gap.
After trying all of them, and seeing them fail, I decided to try something different.
Yes, a new fucking spec lol.
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โจ๏ธ Introducing Open Ranking
After two years of researching the Web of Trust, learning several approaches and their respective tradeoffs, I've defined a protocol.
JSON over HTTP.
Fully interoperable providers.
Machine-discoverable capabilities.
No unnecessary bloat.
This is the most comprehensive yet simple approach to WoT that has a change of working at scale.
I've never liked the term "bug" in software.
It externalizes a mistake that is actually your own.
One should say, "I wasn't able to tell a perfect slave what to do."
That sounds more painful, but it's true. Embrace the mistake.