Brainstorm is a Personalized Webs of Trust Nostr relay that uses advanced techniques to calculate personalized webs of trust, resulting in high-quality, spam-free nostr content, curated by your Nostr community. It is currently in alpha and is not yet ready for production use.

• You and your friends can use your Brainstorm relay as a normal Nostr content relay, with spam and other unwanted content removed using state of the art WoT technology
• Export personalized WoT scores as NIP-85 Trusted Assertions (kind 30382 events), ready for usage by all NIP-85-compliant clients

• ✅ stream content filtered by your customizable and auto-generated whitelist
• ✅ personalized WoT scores calculated every 6 hours, including:
  • ✅ personalized GrapeRank
  • ✅ personalized PageRank
  • ✅ personalized hops (degrees of separation by follows)
• ✅ customizable GrapeRank parameters
• ✅ publish personalized WoT scores as NIP-85 Trusted Assertions (kind 30382 events)
• ✅ table of all profiles with WoT scores
• ✅ individual profile pages
• ✅ browser-based interface
• ✅ strfry and Neo4j integration
• ✅ performance monitoring and logging

I encourage discussion regarding NIP-85 at the NIP-85 PR discussion, and discussion of the WoT DVM at the relevant PR discussion.

• A Linux server (e.g., Ubuntu 22.04 LTS). (You can run it locally for testing but we presume you're using a hosted server.) This has been tested using an AWS EC2 t2.large instance.
• A domain name (e.g., relay.myCoolDomain.com) which you will point to your hosted server.

See the installation instructions for detailed instructions.

At installation, Brainstorm will generate a new nsec for your relay, and will store it in the configuration file. This nsec will be used to sign NIP-85 kind 30382 events, and you will publish kind 10040 event which effectively points clients to your new relay pubkey. In case your relay nsec is compromised or lost, not a big deal! You will simply need to republish your NIP-85 10040 event which will point to your new relay pubkey, and all 30382 events will need to be republished (which happens automatically every 6 hours)

The installation script will:

1. Install and configure Neo4j Community Edition, the Neo4j Graph Data Science plugin, and the Neo4j APOC plugin
2. Set up Neo4j constraints and indexes
3. Install and configure a strfry nostr relay
4. Configure systemd services; see systemd/README.md for details.
5. Create configuration files: /etc/brainstorm.conf, /etc/graperank.conf, /etc/blacklist.conf, /etc/whitelist.conf

cd ~/brainstorm
sudo npm run update

See the update instructions for detailed instructions.

Once installed, go to the home page at: https://[relay.myCoolDomain.com] to setup your relay. Detailed instructions are on the home page.

There are several ways to customize your WoT relay. Each of the following has its own control panel.

• Blacklist
• Whitelist
• GrapeRank parameters
• more customizations coming soon

Once your WoT relay is active, you can use it as a normal Nostr relay, filtered by your WoT to remove spam and other unwanted content. A good way to test whether your WoT relay is working: Create a new npub; use your WoT relay as your sole relay; and set the feed to global. Not every client can do this. Try nosdrudel.ninja if your favorite client can't.

Work in progress:

• recommended follows
• trending content
• other lists curated by your Grapevine and more!

NIP-85 Trusted Assertions is a new feature of the Nostr protocol that allows you to publish your WoT scores to the network. This is a way to share your WoT scores with other relays and clients, and to make your WoT scores more accessible to the public.

To export NIP-85 Trusted Assertions, go to https://myCoolDomain.com/nip85.html and publish a kind 10040 event. Your Brainstorm relay will automatically publish kind 30382 events, signed by your relay nsec, every 6 hours to your WoT relay. The kind 10040 event is how nostr clients know how to access your WoT scores (authored by your relay nsec, with a d-tag corresponding to the pubkey whose trust scores are sought).

As of April 2025, NIP-85 is not yet supported by any nostr clients. Hopefully it will be soon!

• calculate graperank via imported library
• make scores available by WoT DVM
• more personalized recommendation lists: trending notes, etc
• personalized, contextual GrapeRank scores via interpreted data

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Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit comments, bug reports and issues. If you would like to submit a pull request, please create a new issue first and describe the changes you would like to make.