there are also a following cult on nostr, because of standard recommendation on who to follow and because of trending feed of big accounts.
💯 I wish that data vending machines for discovery of content/people were more prevalent and integrated in clients. Search, onboarding, etc., would be improved so much.
The danger is that nostr could recapitulate too many aspects of legacy social media, in exactly the way you mention. Actively rewarding people bc they are influencers = punishing those who are not influencers. Lots of people don’t want us to recreate that world.