Oddbean new post about login | logout it would be interesting to tinker with developing reasonable semantics for trust level in the follow list, can't think off the top of my head how you would do it though
maybe engagement statistics would elevate the secondary computation of trust level?
I mean, PGP's main trust condition is meeting IRL, and I don't think anything should supplant that. I'm pretty sure that everything else is based on degrees of separation
i think engagement is a useful vector to add to a calculation though requiring IRL meeting started to get really impractical in the last 10 years when it comes to affinity, and personally i expected this to happen no way you all are coming to hang anywhere near me in the middle of the atlantic off the west african coast somehow i think
yea, but I'm irrelevant to you and everyone you know in your West African coastal community. Whether or not we talk all the time is irrelevant, I could be a chatbot.
but if i find your content interesting enough to follow you, and i keep reacting and responding to your stuff.. not just the OPs, let's say, but also in the threads, and TO your responses in them... i think that it's possible to make a metric out of that