What is Nostr?
techfeudalist /
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2024-09-06 17:12:11
in reply to nevent1q…kgqx

techfeudalist on Nostr: I don’t view this as a “social” network of friends or family members, to me, ...

I don’t view this as a “social” network of friends or family members, to me, it’s a content network. I follow people because of the content they post.

I already indirectly “trust” this content because the people I follow can already repost to me.

So yes, I trust their choice of content because I follow them.

The system you’re proposing seems to have a few issues:

First, if a new user has 0 trust, they are not shown to anyone. If they were shown with a zero score then so would spammers.

Second, any bot with low trust can just create a new npub and return their trust score to 0 so that they can keep spamming.

Third, it’s not clear if your system has a way to avoid Sybil attacks where bots “trust” each other and that fake trust boosts their overall trust.
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