Say WoT? – Ep. 1: User-Driven Trust Scores with Derek Ross, Vitor Pamplona, and David Strayhorn

<p><strong>Say WoT?</strong> with host Avi Burra kicks off by staking the claim that Nostr’s “exit ramp” from addictive, black-box feeds is <strong>Web of Trust</strong>, and then immediately drops into the engine room with <strong>Vitor Pamplona (Amethyst), Derek Ross (Soapbox), and David Strayhorn (NosFabrica)</strong>.</p> <p>The trio breaks down <strong>NIP-85 trusted assertions</strong> as a simple delivery mechanism for <em>portable, personalized</em> trust scores (clients shouldn’t compute them), and tackles the “is this a social credit score?” fear head-on: the key difference is <strong>user-chosen providers + user-specific perspective</strong>, not a single global, centralized rating. They close by mapping real use-cases: spam/scam suppression (especially in notifications), better sorting and discovery, and the longer arc toward <strong>contextual trust</strong> (different signals and scores depending on what you’re trying to find).</p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <ul> <li><a href="https://nosfabrica.com/">NosFabrica</a></li> <li><a href="https://soapbox.pub/">Soapbox</a></li> <li><a href="https://amethyst.social/">Amethyst</a></li> </ul>