Community relays have solved the WoT problem, very simply, elegantly, and without requiring rampant nepotism. You don't need to have frens in high places, to get "seen" on a community relay, and it's easy to make new frens.

But we can't solve the follow list problem. Almost all npubs are onboarded to the Primal follow list. They usually don't change that preset, much, after that, and if they switch clients, they take that list with them. It's like a software virus, and it has infected the entire network by ossifying everyone's feeds, and constantly doubling-down follows on the same subset of npubs.

It's become The God List.

The overreliance on follow-feeds also encourages people to use gigantic aggregators as their primary relay (the quality of the relay is then irrelevant), which fills their global feed with spam, bots, and

*Horrors Beyond Human Comprehension*.

Which means nobody looks at global, even harder. But the new entrants are in global. And all notes stand or fall on their own merit, in global. There is no VIP in global, there's just the notes.

This is not good enough.

I have not yet begun to fight.