There are a lot of elements that need to be in place for web of trust to take off, among them:

- explicit attestations of trust, not proxy indicators

- trust needs to be contextual

- attestations are used to calculate influence scores, which are also contextual

- trust in a broad context should apply automatically to its sub-contexts, otherwise UI is too cumbersome

- there must be a way to track confidence, eg my Grapevine tells me Bob is an expert in X, but confidence is only 5% bc the estimate is based on scant data

- your WoT manages the contexts and their hierarchies

I’ve built a proof of concept (see link) that demonstrates most of the above elements, so I know it’s possible to achieve all of the above. But design and UX are bad, so it’s time now to focus on deciding what product to build first and how to make it awesome.

https://github.com/wds4/pretty-good/blob/main/appDescriptions/curatedLists/overview.md