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View quoted note → What if we replaced follower counts with some other addictive metric in Nostr clients -- but one that was specific to Nostr and could actually work reliably and not be gamed? (No, I am not talking about zaps, these can also be gamed, and this is not a trivia question, I don't have any answers.)
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nostrdb is super optimized for ingesting and storing lots of notes. It’s not really a big deal. Things are incrementally updated and cached. We also have an embedded local note search. We’re making it to be offline first. we try not to rely on or trust any external third party services, especially for things as important as web of trust calculations.
It wont be easy, but we will to teach the world the web always was subjective; you trust platforms to come up with a number, on what the platform beliefs to be real users. People might be temped to think whatever pops up eventually in the Nostr context is some degraded thing from what we have in the legacy system, but it is probably actually an upgrade