Digital Trust Protocol

Personal Server

Your own web-of-trust server on your computer or home network, shared by Attention and every other local app.

In design The Personal Server is being specified. The pages below describe the plan.

Why

Attention runs its trust graph inside the browser, which can pause the extension at any moment. Every restart reloads the graph, and syncing has to stay small. A Personal Server keeps one graph warm in a normal process, syncs with Nostr relays continuously, and answers every browser profile and local app from the same place.

What it holds

Only public, signed Nostr events about trust (32009), ratings (32014), and identity claims (10011), plus its own settings. It never holds your Nostr secret key and never sees X data: the accounts and posts you look at stay in Attention.

What it is not

  • Not a key holder: your key stays in Attention.
  • Not a publisher: Attention delivers your events to relays.
  • Not a service for other people: that is the Global Server.
  • Not a second set of rules: it runs the same TrustGraph code as the extension.

Access

By default it listens only on your own machine, or on your private home network if you choose, and needs no login: it holds only public events and checks every signature. Guards still block websites and address tricks from reaching it. On a shared network you can require standard Nostr authentication (NIP-42) with a member list (NIP-43) (security).

Install

When the first release is ready, one command will set it up:

npx @dtp/personal-server init

Connecting Attention

Attention will offer the server as a backend in its settings. Switching between your Personal Server and a Global Server is a change of address, because both speak the same resolver protocol (connecting Attention).

Documentation

The protocol it speaks is the resolver protocol; the rules it applies are the resolver model.