Web of Trust at its finest šŖ
I will never shut up about how horrible Web of Trust is for user adoption.
We shouldnāt use a gun to kill cancer on a Petri dish.
Discussion
"I will never shut up about how horrible WoT is."
That's my version.
I think the zapstore use case is a legit use.
Oh I didn't know you are not into WoT. Share more?
I donāt think Iāve ever been pro-WoT, maybe WoT curious at times. Perhaps at the beginning when I did not understand it properly.
When you really think about the long-term effects of WoT you realize how detrimental it is to the growth of Nostr.
Until the death of WoT, or at least the current aberration that is implemented by most clients and relays, the OGs who managed to amass a big following just need to sit on their asses while the new user will struggle to get any attention. The new guyās only hope to become relevant is if one of those OGs looks hard enough and follows them.
The OGs did not have a WoT filter to pass through early on, and had that been the case, most of them wouldnāt even be here. I probably wouldnāt be here.
WoT kills spam but it also kills the host.
Hmmm, so it appears that I don't understand it properly. Can you help me understand what happens and how is it that affecta my pretty dead engagement levels which many others seem to experience too?
Sure! People only see posts from those they follow, or from people their follows follow, it may or may not get any deeper than that.
Unless you are well-connected, this creates a bubble for yourself. If not enough people follow you, or if those that follow you donāt have many followers, then your posts stay within your little circle.
Your followers can help you by reposting your content, reacting, or replying to it, for it to be viewed by those outside your bubble but still part of theirs.
You can increase your visibility by tagging your post with popular relevant tags.
Let me know if that helps!
Yes, WoT is a form of nepotism, which is the _opposite_ of PoW.
Community relays actually alleviate the worst effects of WoT, tho. I think you're wrong about that.
They at least give everyone a chance to be quickly seen and prove themselves. If you get thrown out of a community, you can go someplace else, or start your own relay, and your newfound frens can follow you. There's no lag.
With WoT, nobody ever knows you came, you wallow in obscurity for quite some time, and you then leave without making a single sound that anyone heard.
I'm not an OG, but I arrived right before the WoT stuff started and everyone stopped looking at global, so I've had to really scrape follows together. Npub by npub.
That's why I sit in steerage, even though I regularly trend. It's a paradox that confuses everyone. Why is she always so frustrated and angry, when we all see her stuff and respond? You can see my stuff and respond because I've worked on this from sunup to sundown, every damn day, for two years.
It's been absolutely brutal and if I weren't trying to market projects and promote my frens, I would have long since thrown in the towel.
This has been way too hard. It doesn't make sense that it's such a struggle to post such popular content, but I simply missed the OG jump and am permanently screwed.
Also, I hit a complete follow-wall around 6k. Nothing I did budged that number, for nearly a year.
Sometimes went entire weeks without adding a single follower. That is completely unnatural, so I have questions.