Thread - Nostr Hypermedia

Pip the WoT guy pip@vertexlab.io 1 year ago

There is a nip for which mints you recommend, but not one for which mint you use (which has many privacy implications) There is a danger of feedback loop, yes, however keep in mind that your trending mints are going to be different, and possibly very different from mines, because it's personalised! I agree community helps with these things, totally. Another aspect to consider is that in the future reputation is going to become much more important, so who you give your attention to or who you recommend is going to be used to judge you. Trending towards anarchy requires personal responsibility and stricter societal norms, so I agree with you pointing out these problems, but I think they will become smaller in the future (still a lot of work to solve them in a convincing way)

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Pip the WoT guy pip@vertexlab.io 1 year ago

I think mints are similar to relays. Using few big relays is fastest, and if we all do it there is very low probability of missing some posts. Same with mints, if we use few big ones it's fastest and we have lower fees (as most transactions would be intra-mint). However, if we look at the current distribution of users per relay it's pretty good (plot from nostr.band) Why is that? The advantage of using multiple relays is lower probability of censorship. Similarly, the advantage of using multiple mints is lower probability of rugs. Also, with mints there is an anti-centralisation influence, because you don't want to use the biggest mints as there is more chance of big rugs from the gov or hacks. So I would say there is decent evidence that the distribution of mints will be more flat than that of relays.