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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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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.
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 View quoted note β†’
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