quoting nevent1q…ckhvBig news: FUTO is funding Coracle development for three months, starting next week.
Up till now, I've been focused on building the best web client I can in the time allotted, but I want to start being more intentional about building something novel, interesting, and useful.
My vision for nostr isn't shared by everyone, but in summary, I want to support a mix of community relays with high social trust with trust-based content replication across the wider network. In other words, low value content won't reach escape velocity, but popular/valuable content will cross the barrier between social spheres. This isn't something I want to impose, I think it's how social networks already work.
The key features needed to make this possible are:
1. Authenticating users who wish to publish to a particular relay
2. A UI that treats relays, their admins, and their members as a first-class thing
3. Efficient social graph analysis which a client can implement on behalf of its user. This implies the existence of trustworthy indexing services.
4. An endorsement system that goes beyond reactions/votes, but which users will still voluntarily contribute to. The New Founding project has done some good work here by placing votes on two axes: rating and confidence.
5. Tangentially, payments and marketplace functionality.
I would love any feedback on these ideas, or contributions to the project. My issue tracking is very informal right now, but I would be happy to shore it up for any potential participants.
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