How to make something that is simple on the surface, yet complex enough under the hood to do what needs to be done, is challenging when it comes to web of trust, bc many simple solutions just don’t work.

But your points are well taken. Ways I could simplify:

- I describe channels and topics as two different things. Maybe get rid of channels and just stick with topics.

- I describe curation of pubkeys AND notes. Maybe just curate pubkeys, forget about the notes.

- forget about organizing topics into a hierarchy. Just have topics, that’s it.

- provide the ability to upvote but eliminate the ability to downvote.

In each of the above cases, the extra features could potentially be added later if users ask for it.

But consider this:

Flip the channel. Watch your feed. What could be simpler? 😃