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 I used the Influence Score method rather than WoT scores in a desktop app to curate lists, as described below.

What I failed to appreciate when I built that desktop app was that the low quality but abundant proxy data (likes, follows, etc) can be merged with high quality but scarce contextual trust attestations via the method of “interpretation” I just described. Pooling them together is how we overcoming the bootstrapping problem.

https://github.com/wds4/pretty-good/blob/main/appDescriptions/curatedLists/overview.md