its not unwanted speech as this hides wanted speech, its a trust based filter

unwanted speech? so anything outside of your wot is "unwanted" idk about that. maybe "untrusted"?

"trusted" ? "approved" ? If we're going to be pedantic about what this score means, it's really just "popularity" heh.

People are so used to hearing these terms used in a dystopian way it's hard to even talk about Nostr's paradigm. "Safe" is a subjective adjective, "unwanted" is a passive verb. The agent isn't specified, and around here it's not who it usually is.

Yes. I don't use global now. I haven't for at least 6 montha or more it's a shit show. Implementing a WoT would allow people that want to turn this feature on be able to turn it on and use global once again. Don't like it because you want a full blown fire hose of everything in global? Then don't turn it on. This allows you to get what you want and allows me to get what I want. Win/win.

I guess it's somewhat hard to realize that not everyone wants to control you and some are legitimately trying to give control back to you.

It's more a friend of a friend of a friend of a friend. And so forth. A network of friends.

Right, but I can't think of a better term than popularity to sum it up. adjacency? heh I think @hodlbod implied recursion isn't even in play here so it's nothing beyond friend-of-a-friend?

Right, but I don't think I would call it popularity, since that's independent of your standpoint. It's maybe closer to popularity within friend group, but a better word might be "alignment"

I mean every word so far has been an imperfect descriptor, I wouldn't throw out "popularity" just because it's an imperfect match. "alignment" is probably closer to correct, but it's not very clear to a new user imho. An imperfect understanding of the word "popular" will still lead someone to basically correctly understand the WoT score. "apparent popularity" actually is a near perfect match imho, but it's a bit wordy. "in groupiness" was my first thought after popularity, but I think it's also a bit unclear to your average new user, and it sounds goofy lol

Happy to help you bikeshed the term for the rest of the day instead of doing more important things 😉 😂

Let's go with in-groupiness haha

Last comment on this I swear! What about just calling it a "Score" or "WoT Score" and if the user cares enough to investigate what that is, give them a precise description in a tooltip or something. Otherwise, all the user REALLY needs to know is it's some kind of score, higher is better.

That is in fact exactly what I'm doing lol

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