They would become visible to you once they become followed by someone in your extended trust network (which could be thousands of people). If they can’t get followed by at least one person, they are probably spam.
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I follow a lot of people but I wouldn’t say I trust them. A few degrees of separation from 200 people is a huge number of people potentially. I certainly would not trust those people let alone the people I follow.
I’m using “trust” to mean that you trust this network not to spam you. Presumably you’re following worthy people and they are likewise following worthy people. Of course, someone in this extended group of worthy people might accidentally follow a spammer but you could block those likely rare cases.
Ok but I still don’t know if I’m following worthy people. I follow people to “try them out “ to see what they talk about. If they are consistently positive and say interesting things I keep following them. But if they are negative, irrational, act out or talk nonsense I unfollow.
That makes sense. If everyone did that, the network would continue to get better. My assumption was that most people are decent and not spammers. There just needs to be a way to filter out the worst and make it difficult for those new spammers to just blast the network using automated bots. It would be a hurdle to get your bitcoin followed by decent people and presumably a bigger hurdle to stay followed after the bot starts spamming. Anyway, just a suggestion.
It’s good to discuss things! Ty for your ideas.