Currently web of trust just makes the big accounts bigger and does nothing to improve the quality of the network. It encourages people to follow more and get followed more.

Incentives will drive human behavior always.

The real issue with nostr is discoverability, and WoT is a fools errand on that front.

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nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s would know more about it than me but Iโ€™m led to believe that WoT will help discoverability if done correctly

โ€œIf done correctlyโ€

Thereโ€™s one right way and many wrong ways.

Itโ€™s More likely to just manipulate people.

what do we know if the right way will manipulate people, that sounds like a symptom of a bad implementation.

Many ways of doing it right, many ways of doing it wrong

Certainly there are more ways of doing it wrong, and thatโ€™s the path itโ€™s going.

Developers working on doing things to manipulated users, instead of the things the users actually want them to do.

Most users donโ€™t want spam so working on spam prevention seems to be aligned

Relays handle spam, the ability to control which relays youโ€™re seeing and relating to controls spam. spam hasnโ€™t been an issue for me for over a year now.

Grasping at straws to justify your own desires.

You donโ€™t necessarily need to use WoT as a recommendation algorithm, its main use is determining trustworthiness when trying to fix gaming of things like zap, like, and follow feeds. I donโ€™t see how this is โ€œstupidโ€.

Itโ€™s stupid because people will use it as a social credit score and gaming of zaps, likes, and follow feeds is only an issue for people trying to derive metrics and donโ€™t really matter to actual users.

Humans have been applying social scores for 200,000 years, I don't think that will change anytime soon

Yah, so letโ€™s let some developer give us a number on a screen so we donโ€™t have to think for ourselves anymore. Great idea.

That can be said of lots of tools invented by humans. Web of trust is another tool that can surface existing information in compressed form. It does not mandate any numbers on a screen, that is one implementation choice