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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 on Nostr: If I interpreted that correctly, the ‘Kind’ of an attestation is defined by who ...

If I interpreted that correctly, the ‘Kind’ of an attestation is defined by who the root of the chain is. But unless you encode the chain by its timestamps, there is no root in a directed graph. The editor may be attested as such by the bookstore after they attested your book. They may have an attestation for an entirely different purpose (“great cook”) from someone unrelated to the publishing use case. The consumer may be seeing both, and more.

In order to encode the chain, each attestation would have to refer to the role attestation it is given with. But, as above, they may not be in a clear time order.