But is the Web of Trust thing adding another mechanism that could further cement this in-group scenario / stagnation? (Genuine question I have no idea). I would hope that smarter people than me who actually know and build stuff are tackling this lol. People do like to talk about silos a lot, so I would imagine so...? 

 yea i fear we’re making the onboarding experience much worse for new ppl by relying more & more on WoT