Depends on what you mean by WoT and what it is being used for. I usually think of “my WoT” as constructed out of my follows, their follows, their follows, etc (depends on how many hops away you want to go), and I use it to filter out spam. For this use case, it doesn’t matter whether i have any followers or not. Just because someone follows me doesn’t tell me whether that npub is a bot or not.
If the issue is whether a new user is visible to establshed users, then you’re right, that user will need to be followed by someone.
How many followers does a new user need to make it through the WoT filters? Depends on how the WoT is being calculated and implemented.
My follows and my follows follows, correct. Correct again, a new person following me is not in my WoT.
Which is why I said this system hurts new users because they have zero WoT.
One of the features of using the GrapeRank WoT score as a spam filter is that if you’re a new user, it only takes a small handful of trusted followers to boost your score high enough so you don’t get lost in the filter.
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