<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Mike Dilger ☑️ wrote</title><author_name>Mike Dilger ☑️ (npub1ac…9p35c)</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.now/npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.now</provider_url><html>After having added web-of-trust to gossip, I think that 2-degrees of separation is good enough for now.  All the people I follow, plus all the people that they follow.  I follow 262 people.  They follow 17751 people.  That is 67x as many people.&#xA;&#xA;Some people are suggesting 3-degrees of separation.  I didn&#39;t try it, but I suspect this would not grow another 67-fold because the nostr community isn&#39;t big enough for that.  So if you do 3-degrees of separation today, you&#39;ll get just about everybody on nostr that isn&#39;t a spammer... which is ideally what we want.  So go for it if you dare.&#xA;&#xA;However, there is a cost to maintaining 3-degrees of separation data.  As nostr grows, your table will grow to probably over a million people. And you will need to keep the contact list data for all of the people at 2-degrees of separation, so that as they follow and unfollow people you can apply increments and decrements to those people&#39;s WoT score.  For me that is 17751 lists of public keys... which I feel is too much data for a client to be maintaining just to slightly reduce spam false positives.&#xA;&#xA;Feel free to disagree if you feel the juice is worth the squeeze.</html></oembed>