I never saw WoT as "easiest to manipulate," millions of bots would seem to have no effect on it from an internal perspective. Not perfect of course, but what's the better option in your opinion?
(I'm assuming WoT here btw or did i miss something?)
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yes you are, the problem is humans are easy to manipulate with automated accounts, where the reputation can be built up with AI slop and burnt up for scams and impersonation
What do you mean "yes you are"? I haven't made a personal statement above. But again I was asking for the mechanism by which WoT is easy to manipulate. Are you saying that bots pretending to be fun or useful in a certain context to get people to follow them and then "turning on them" is the mechanism to propagate fake mutes/bans and that these naturally get spread through the follower network too?
I'm asking because i wasn't aware that some of these actions would be automatically adopted if that's what is being discussed. In other words, I was aware that people couldn't get "into" my bubble without some connection to the WoT rather than the notion that if a few accounts *inside* of my WoT would make an unintentional ban/mute for someone that I may want to follow. I actually wouldn't like that behavior generally. People mute for simple opinion, a response, or just being disagreeable. That s a negative thing to "crowdsource" so cheaply, imo.
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“yes you are (assuming correctly)”
Yes, people can and have made bots that pretend to be useful that they then abuse to make spambots bypass WoT.
There alsl are WoT algos that use personal mutes and reports (which can be abused; for example Calle trying to silence Cashu critics) to automatically hide content
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Gotcha I didn't realize mutes were transferred WoT style and generally think the muting/blocking aspect should be personal, not transmitted unless explicitly agreed. In other words I think it should be "loose automatic white list, and manual blacklist" in implementation. Obviously likely scaling considerations there but i think that's a better default risk trade off in my mind at least. Could be missing something though, haven't thought about this deeply with hard specifics.
off-topic but can you point me to some of the cashu critiques?
Millions of bots lol
You only need 5 bots to to manipulate this so called web of trust.
It would be extremely easy to exploit if other clients adopt it.
One person could easily shadowban anyone they want from new users with a handful of reply bots