What's to stop bots from building huge webs of trust. Infiltration of real webs of trust would be trivial.

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That’s the whole point of WoT! 😅😅 it makes it NOT trivial

Meh. Imagine someone offering you 10BTC to trust their profile. Wouldn't that be a way of doing it?

That’s ONE edge of the graph; and someone selling their trust would very soon find themselves losing edges themselves. Plus that’s organically Sybil resistant

Did you say “LinkedIn”?

Here’s five reasons why your colleagues are friends with ransoms from other countries, that somehow know you too, and want to join your network.

We’ll just need to add a cost factor to make it prohibitively expensive to try build bot farms (even other human farms, and with a high cost of it gets found out/discovered.