You donโt necessarily need to use WoT as a recommendation algorithm, its main use is determining trustworthiness when trying to fix gaming of things like zap, like, and follow feeds. I donโt see how this is โstupidโ.
nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s would know more about it than me but Iโm led to believe that WoT will help discoverability if done correctly
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Itโs stupid because people will use it as a social credit score and gaming of zaps, likes, and follow feeds is only an issue for people trying to derive metrics and donโt really matter to actual users.
Humans have been applying social scores for 200,000 years, I don't think that will change anytime soon
Yah, so letโs let some developer give us a number on a screen so we donโt have to think for ourselves anymore. Great idea.
That can be said of lots of tools invented by humans. Web of trust is another tool that can surface existing information in compressed form. It does not mandate any numbers on a screen, that is one implementation choice