Indeed. It's a relay that whitelists who can post to it based on your web-of-trust. In most cases, that is defined as the nostr:npubs you follow + the nostr:npubs they follow.
The one I am running is utxo the webmaster 🧑💻 (npub1utx…50e8)'s WoT Relay that can be found here: https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay
This implementation has the advantage that it can aggregate notes from those within your web-of-trust by pulling from the relays they write to. You can also limit the amount of time they will be stored on your relay and exclude certain users' follows from your web-of-trust if you notice that they have been duped into following bots.
UTXO calls this last feature the "Retard List." My retard list keeps growing...
Dikaios1517
npub1ku…v3lhe
2025-04-05 02:42:02
in reply to nevent1q…xftr
Author Public Key
npub1kun5628raxpm7usdkj62z2337hr77f3ryrg9cf0vjpyf4jvk9r9smv3lheSeen on
wss://relay.utxo.one/inboxwss://nostr.winewss://relay.primal.net/primal.netwss://relay.nostrplebs.comwss://relay.damus.ioPublished at
2025-04-05 02:42:02Event JSON
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"content": "Indeed. It's a relay that whitelists who can post to it based on your web-of-trust. In most cases, that is defined as the nostr:npubs you follow + the nostr:npubs they follow.\n\nThe one I am running is nostr:npub1utx00neqgqln72j22kej3ux7803c2k986henvvha4thuwfkper4s7r50e8's WoT Relay that can be found here: https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay\n\nThis implementation has the advantage that it can aggregate notes from those within your web-of-trust by pulling from the relays they write to. You can also limit the amount of time they will be stored on your relay and exclude certain users' follows from your web-of-trust if you notice that they have been duped into following bots.\n\nUTXO calls this last feature the \"Retard List.\" My retard list keeps growing...",
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