Attack-resistant trust · computed from your seeds
Trust isn't global. It's subjective.
Who you trust is a subjective decision, and it changes with context. 6d trust just computes it: pick a root — an open-source community, your company, or just you — and trust flows out from there. Same vouch graph, different root, different verdicts. A calculator, not a judge.
On the internet, security is abundant. Trust is scarce.
OSC — Open Source Contributors
- @antirez off-graphseed
- @gvanrossum off-graphseed
- @isaacs off-graphseed
- @kentcdodds off-graphseed
- @mitchellh off-graphseed
- @mojombo off-graphseed
- @raphlinus off-graphseed
- @sindresorhus off-graphseed
- @torvalds off-graphseed
- @yyx990803 off-graphseed
Featured roots rotate automatically — pick an icon to hold one, or open its page from the link below. The graph never changed — only the seeds did. The same person can be trusted from one worldview and pending from another. That gap is the entire point.
Watch · the idea in five minutes
Triage by trust you actually hold
Why counting fails, why trust is subjective, and how one honest vouch starves a swarm of a million fakes — the whole reasoning, start to finish.
A real, embeddable badge
Put your trust on your README
Every badge is a live, verifiable view into computed state — not a vanity sticker. It updates when the graph does, and says different things from different roots.
How it works
Certify
People add each other to their trust graphs at three levels — known, vouched, trusted. Each edge is signed, verifiable without trusting the operator.
Choose seeds
Pick a root: the seed identities whose trust you take as given. There's no hard-wired global seed — your seeds define your worldview.
Compute
A max-flow runs from your seeds through the graph. Node capacity falls with distance, so a flood of fake accounts can't buy trust. The output is who's accepted, at what level.
Certification levels
deeply trusted, near the seeds — the strongest signal
endorsed into the web of trust from this root
a real, known person — reachable from this root
no path reaches them from this root yet — an open door, not a verdict