Web of Trust scores on profile photos in Amethyst are just the beginning. These signals will become foundational tools for helping users assess credibility, reduce spam, and navigate their social graph with more confidence. This is all part of creating your own algorithm. And it's only going to improve from here.
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Iβm curious about my score, do you mind please sharing? Iβm in iOS world.
It's 37, but this number is not going to be the same for every person that sees you. It's just for me.
Curious. Thatβs so low!!
I assume thatβs meant to tell you Iβm more likely a bot? A troll? π€·π»ββοΈ
Iβm very much a human, so thereβs that.
Thanks for letting me know though.
i would assume this is because you don't engage and interact with the same people that i do?
this is all still very new and needs a lot more information and tooling.
Thatβs likely what it is.
I need to engage more.
I donβt like this name, but it seems to fit; this looks like a social credit scoring system.
if it was centralized and someone was in control of it, i'd call it that, but since each user is in control of everything, it's not really the same thing.
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what about Web of Verification scores ?
I think you're onto something. Now inscribe the signals to BTC- give a token- add economic ranking...
I really like a lot how @Coracle does it. Here one can set a minimal WoT combined with a minimal PoW. This allows to see comments of new users still, when they use world of trust.
It is important to not forget about the new users.
But also appreciate a lot the idea to just not show users, which were reported more than 5 times within my follows.
"Interesting perspective! Itβs great to see discussions about balancing new user visibility with community safety. Finding that sweet spot is key! π How do you think we can encourage healthy interactions while keeping the platform welcoming? π€"
I think it is really important to find a way, to check the introductions and asknostr tag from time to time. And when someone sees new users reference them in a note or to quote their notes.
I also would not expect from new users to set a pow. So I really think that the proposal vrom @Vitor Pamplona is one of the best balance. To only filter users, that got reported more often by you and your follows than whatever treshhold one sets.
This is evil.
A sad day for nostrβ¦freedom tech they said
Feels like a way to force us into echo chambers and prevent healthy discussion.
Thank fuck that it's only amethyst.
I'm happy to stop using it.
Vou examinar isso com mais acuidade. Se estiver havendo shadow ban por essa porcaria, vou para outro cliente.
What don't you understand about web of trust?
You have the freedom to use it however you want. It's fucking cool.
I'm curious: What do you see as my score?
"45; suspected vibe coder"
(kidding; I'm using today's / latest Amethyst but not seeing these numbers)
I would answer but I can't even see your account on amethyst, apparently I follow too many people that have you muted or something.
Probably. I think most people can't see me. That's why I'm curious.
I can see you on Amethyst
There are always a few rebels. π
I'm not sure where to look for the WoT score 

I think you have to subscribe to a provider.
67
Interesting. It's quite low, but I expected it to be even lower.
Other people could see you much higher. It's not a centralized score.
I know, but I was curious as to what you see, specifically.
Your score will be different for each user. It all depends on which algo they choose.
What do you see?
69 π
At least, it's a funny number. π
Is there a way to use this score in reverse? To find anyone who causes someone else to have a low score?
Sure! It's your algo anyway :)
I can't even figure @Amethyst needs a how to section embedded in the app
How do we see this information?
Are you talking about the 0?
Everyone has a 0 even Gigi?


Ok now this is getting rediculous.
My following feed on amethyst is full of bots that I don't even follow.
This is so fucking broken.
It's hiding real people and showing me spam bots
This is a lie. You should work harder to troll harder. You clearly don't understand how any of this works and that's okay because it's new and complicated. But that doesn't mean you need to make up claims that don't make sense. It just makes you look like a bad actor.
Just give me my social score already
I can only see half the comments on this note when using amethyst.
Also, all the people I can see are ranked at 0
Lol
Amethyst bringing in client side censorship this early is going to kill their brand before it gets anywhere.
Imagine you're a new user on amethyst, you've followed 15 people and now you can't see 3/4 of nostr because between those 15 people you got 5 mutes on ΒΎ on nostr.
Depends who you follow, maybe you follow 50 before half of nostr disappears
It's just going to force people into echo chambers and prevent nostr growing when new users feel like nostr is just an empty void.
People are going to think nostr has 150 active daily users instead of 15k lol
At least nobody actually uses amethyst as their first client.
But if primal done something like this it would kill nostr, there's be absolutely no new user retention
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I see some dude holding a mic, "what this mofo sellin?" fuck off bald xi jinping!
Apart from censorship making nostr more boring when we can't see half the comments.
I can see ways for this to be misused with bots.
Anyone can set up a bunch of reply bots that reply to new users and get followered by those new users.
That's literally how I found people to follow on here in the beginning, I was following the nostr CEO bot and checking it's replies to find new people.
It doesn't actually matter because it's only amethyst, but if a popular client for new comers did this, someone could really mess with people by exploiting it
That's not how this works at all though.
I don't think scores on the forehead are a good idea. It's objectifying people, as if any algorithm is going to be 100% precise in capturing the very contextual notion of trust.
But they don't have to be shown, they can simply be used to increase signal and decrease noise, magically, and in the background.
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Based on what?
There's a wide range of criteria. Whatever you want. Zaps, comments, follows, mutes, literally anything and everything that you want and it can be based on you and your context. It's what you want.
End user sets what their expectations are of a trust worthy user and then the score is compiled?
Essentially. We have our own metrics and weights. What is good for me isn't necessarily good for you.
Gotcha - I was going to try and vibe a trade services app on top of Nostr for fun and was thinking about how the end user could rank a user as trustworthy straight off the start line.
I use amethyst. I updated to the latest version. I don't see any numbers on profile pics. Where can I see thus number?
WoT = Nostr-Score


My #Amethyst client now connects to 1200 relaysβ¦
what?? No dupplicated connection?
As the 17th most prolific shitposter as deemed by Will's node, I second this message π
That's about right, Mike. I see you as 82. Wild π
Is 82 my ranking or my age? π
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What scores on profile photos in Amethyst? Results are based on what?
Web of trust cannot scale without account recovery.
