Yes, I can bootstrap trust data from zero by using follows, but the more difficult part is to bootstrap the content itself, e.g. make people to post lots of interesting articles and discussion starters and come back regularly. Like it happened in reddit. I still like the simplicity of the idea.
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Is there anyone doing anything like what you envision?
Seems like no. There were uncommitted trials doing that.
What about curating content that already exists? So that you would not need to build a pile of content from scratch, ie. no need to build Reddit from scratch. (Not that it isn’t a cool idea in and of itself.)
There are lots of different types of content on nostr. So one question to consider: which category of content would be the lowest hanging fruit for decentralized curation? Right now I’m working on wiki articles, but there are so many other juicy targets.
Some may be more amenable than others. Stratification of a nostr feed is typically chronological, and it’s not immediately obvious how to combine age + WoT score to reorder the nostr feed. For a wiki topic, I think it’s more obvious: just order them best to worst.
Certain lists like products for sale, movies, music, etc certainly would benefit directly from curation by WoT.