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Why GrapeRank Uses Mutes and Reports to Pick Off Bots, Impersonators and Bad Actors

Bad actors can easily fool personalized PageRank using the link farm attack. Well-placed NIP-56 reports can pick off bad actors like a sniper rifle, effectively cleaving away an entire link farm with only a small handful of well placed reports.

Data Model for a Neo4j Nostr Relay

Key Rotation and Web of Trust: the Simplest Possible Solution to a Pressing Problem

Key rotation is an existential problem that cries out for an answer. This article outlines a simple, workable solution that uses personalized web of trust to keep track of key rotation events. We propose no new NIPs or event kinds, instead relying on the Decentralized Lists NIP to establish a simple protocol that can be expanded upon later. A Key Rotation Manager client would make an excellent entry into the upcoming web of trust hackathon!

Separation of Trust and Client

Web of Trust systems in nostr need to generate trust metrics that are contextual, personalized to the end user, and portable throughout the ecosystem. These requirements, in particular the portability requirement, can only be realized when trust metrics are calculated independently of the nostr clients that consume them. This article explores how innovative solutions like Trusted Assertions can make this a reality.

Decentralized Curation of Simple Lists

A simple and straightforward method is proposed for community curation of any arbitrary list using your web of trust.

Service Providers for Personalized Trust Metrics

Nostr should have a marketplace of third party service providers that calculate personalized trust metrics for consumption by nostr clients. This will enable the development of more sophisticated trust metrics, promote consistency of the user experience across nostr, and free up client resources to focus on their core missions.

GrapeRank

This is a high level overview of the GrapeRank algorithm for personalized trust metrics. The baseline GrapeRank metric functions as a method of nostr pubkey verification: kind 3 follows are favorable indicators, with mutes and reports being disfavorable. A well defined pathway exists to incorporate additional indicators and to create additional, contextual GrapeRank metrics for a variety of applications.

Integration of NIP-85: Trusted Assertions into Nostr Clients

I discuss how to integrate personalized trust metrics generated by independent service providers into your nostr client using NIP-85: Trusted Assertions.

Web of Trust, the Grapevine and the Art of Interpretation

a short overview of the process of interpretation of raw data into a format suitable for consumption by the grapevine algorithm

To get Web of Trust right, we must Show AND Tell

To make web of trust work, we need to think more deeply about how exactly trust scores are calculated, and we need to expand our dataset to include explicit trust attestations in addition to proxy trust indicators.

Web of trust: a roadmap for the short to medium term

This is a proposed short-to-medium term roadmap to bring web of trust to nostr. Remember, Rome wasn't built in a day.