Digital Trust Protocol

Attention

A Chrome extension that lets you trust people and rate posts on X, and shows your circle's judgment right where you read.

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What it does on X

  • Trust people. Mark an account as trusted, Neutral, or distrusted. On any profile you see whether your circle trusts them and how that trust reaches you.
  • Rate posts. One tap gives a post a rating, from worth reading down to spam, with optional labels and a short note.
  • See your circle's judgment in place. A small indicator next to names and posts shows the evidence from people you trust; the details and the path are a click away.
  • Hide what misses your bar. Optional filters keep posts from distrusted or unrated authors out of your home timeline. Filters are off until you turn them on.
An X profile page for NASA with a green 'Trusted · 4°' label next to the name, added by Attention, and the same label on the pinned post.
Your circle's evidence next to the name: trusted, four steps away.
A rating popover over an X post with five stars, an optional note field, and labels from Insightful (5 stars) to Spam (0 stars).
Rate a post in one tap; labels explain why.
A path view: from 'You' on the left through people you trust, then SpaceX, Tesla and others, to NASA on the right, with green trust lines and a few red distrust lines.
The path: how trust reaches an account from you.
The Attention side panel next to NASA's profile, in demo mode, listing who trusts and distrusts the account with short reasons.
Who said what, with their reasons, in the side panel.
A graph view centered on NASA with seven connected accounts, green lines for trust and a red line for distrust.
The neighborhood of an account as a graph.
Attention display settings beside an X timeline, with switches for on-page labels and timeline filters for trusted, mixed, distrusted, and no evidence.
Choose what appears on the page and what gets hidden.

Privacy in short

  • Attention reads public information that X already shows on the page: numeric account ids, handles, and post ids. From the public twid cookie it keeps only your own numeric X id.
  • It never posts, likes, follows, deletes, or sends messages for you, and it does not search X.
  • Your Nostr key lives in an encrypted vault inside the extension and never reaches the page or any server.
  • There is no Attention server and no analytics. Data leaves your device only to the Nostr relays you choose and, for a few settings, Chrome Sync.

The full privacy policy lists every item.

Install

The Chrome Web Store listing is being prepared. Until it is public, you can build Attention from source:

  1. Install Node.js 22 or newer, clone BrowserExtension, and run npm install and npm run check.
  2. Open chrome://extensions, turn on Developer mode, choose Load unpacked, and select the dist folder.
  3. Open x.com and follow the onboarding in the Attention side panel to create or import a key.

Try it with sample data

Demo mode fills Attention with a sample web of trust, so you can try every feature before you publish anything. Ratings and trust you give in demo mode stay on your device.

Questions

Answers to common questions are on the support page. Changes are tracked in the commit history.