Nostr

nostr is Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays. It's a decentralized protocol where users don't have accounts anywhere, they just have a private key (nsec) and a public key (npub). User data is stored on relays, a pretty lightweight and simple server.

We're working on moving trustroots onto nostr.

Trust on nostr

What is the usual way to collect user feedback in nostr? Is there anything that can be considered sort of "trust-graphy" that allows you to see whose notes you can trust? It seems nostr people call it web of trust

"following" is considered an indication of trust, but this is just thinking of it as a twitter like network.

"following" is an interesting feature for trustroots, it's something I would have wanted for a long time to make it easier to stay in touch with people, and connect them with others, but it doesn't cover the current trust features we have

"contacts" is similar but both ways and it doesn't convey much trust anyway (should even disallow requesting/adding contacts if there's no message exchange, which happens...)

"experiences" could be ported to nostr, but it's probably nicer to try something, something guaka (talk) wanted to try for a long time already: following/trusting someone with a specific circle/hashtag. A bit like linkedin allows your contacts to upvote your skills.

For good friends it would be pretty easy to see which circles they belong to (which #hashtags they used) and then the user can upvote that. Even simpler. It would be easy to start experimenting with NIP-25 kind 7 nostr notes (e.g. thumbs up/down style reactions). This feature has already been requested for https://tripch.at/ This makes for a simple experiment. Calculate local (i.e. looking from the network from the POV of the user) and global trust metrics based on these reactions.

Circles

Some circles will have apps that can stand on their own, we're about to see this with https://hitchwiki.github.io/hitchmap-nostr/ soon at maps.hitchwiki.org

Lightfoot

We never had a forum, or groups (like couchsurfing, bewelcome, or reddit), and what you see a lot in such situations is that the person who first grabs the group, name, will consider that their little fiefdom. So I'm not really attracted to nip-72, in a way de facto sysadmins will rule (over the relays), but this is limited as these days many people have the capacity to run a relay.

guaka (talk) would rather organically (or fafo) figure out some stuff by using nip7 reactions and trust relations between npubs.