• Your Web of Trust
• Two Signals
• The Formula
• What the Numbers Mean
• Why This Approach

§Your Web of Trust

When you log in, jumblewisp builds a Web of Trust (WoT) from your social graph:

• 1 hop: everyone you follow
• 2 hops: everyone your follows follow

This gives you a pool of typically thousands of pubkeys — your extended network.

§Two Signals

For any given account, we track two things:

• Follows — how many of your direct follows also follow them
• Mutes — how many people in your WoT have muted them

§The Formula

We use Bayesian-smoothed exponential decay:

followRate = follows / myFollowSetSize muteRate = mutes / wotSize priorRate = 2%

smoothedRatio = (muteRate + priorRate × 10%) / (followRate + priorRate) score = round(100 × exp(−5 × smoothedRatio))

Dividing by myFollowSetSize means signal strength scales with your curation habits. If you follow 100 people, a single follow carries real weight. If you follow 10,000, it contributes far less — because mass-following is a weaker endorsement.

The prior keeps scores stable for accounts with little data. The exponential decay means even a small mute-to-follow ratio drops the score sharply.

§What the Numbers Mean

A score of 1 means the account is simply unknown — no one in your network follows or mutes them. A score of 0 means your WoT has actively flagged them with no countervailing follows.

§Why This Approach

Your follow and mute graph is already a distributed reputation system — jumblewisp just does the math. No central authority decides who’s trustworthy. Your network does.