You suffer the consequences of your own actions, in this case a system which can be easily manipulated and encourages self censorship Why did no social media platform implement WoT for spam and bot filtering? We may hate them but they also aren’t stupid, and have poured way more time and money into bot detection than Nostr ever will in the next 5-10 years.
You sure like to try to make yourself sound smart.
We are taking a concept originally used in a context where real people verified their real identity in person and often required multiple signatures to be marked trusted, and trying to apply it so that “trust” is established by you wanting to see their content in your feed, and one follow being enough. But I guess it’s too hard to not be realistic about things.
The level of trust required to allow some text note into my feed doesn’t need to be very high. I don’t care what it’s called.