I don’t want to discourage following new users. Just pointing out one aspect of it. There was an account trending on nostr.band a couple days ago with almost that exact same wording.
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I was thinking about recommending new people through trusted communities/groups. If I trust the main members of a community enough and they recommend me a person sporadically, I wouldn't get mad and I would have the opportunity to analyze the behavior of that individual and maybe recommend it if I'm on other community