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LeoWandersleb | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 On the long run I totally agree but to get the level of saturation that I can travel to a random town and find 5 opinions on each of the 200 restaurants all from my social graph is a long way out. But that's what it needs to be really helpful.
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pippellia | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 well, the candidates grow literally exponentially.

I follow directly follows hundreds of people, but if we expand at people that are distant 2 hops we get to 10k-ish. 70k is 3 hops, and then you start to saturate because Nostr is still small.
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mleku | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 keep in mind that a lot of one's follow lists are probably going to overlap a lot though, and those repetitions should logically strengthen the trust vector of the npub
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urza | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Indeed, it will not work so well in situations you describe. But on the other hand you can then expand the search to "friends of friends" and so on.. then at some point it will be less relevant, but at least in theory this is how you can expand your search..

"Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. It is also known as the six handshakes rule."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation