I cant wait for proper subjective #WoT to melt influencer culture down into a useless fucking slag heap. People who create real value in the world will naturally accrue real, voluntary trust from those who recognize real value. The competence and effectiveness of a trust "sub net" that has bootstrapped itself off actual delivered value will be evident by its proof of work in the real world. You can't influence you way into a network like that, you have to be actively recognized by those within it - they invite you in, you don't buy a ticket. The difference between top-down, inflated influencer attention bubbles and bottom-up, hard-value bootstrapped subjective trust networks is as stark as a cantillionaire clown world economy and a Bitcoin Standard world. --- P.S. It's early days in the WoT wars. Pay attention to who throws their support behind which approaches. What I call "proper" WoT are those where the individual is the center of their own trust perspective, and in this sense are permissionless and disagreement-supportive. "global popularity" is irrelevant when the individual can simply ignore or even "nack" a popular node. This is bad for a certain type of influencer, marketer, VC, and anyone else whose sway would be diminished once their Emperor's Clothes are revealed. You cannot print reputation in that environment.

why no quote OP? does derek use a client that can't quote? View quoted note →

When connecting your email client to your Gmail account, Google runs a "caching" service that helps make sure you don't get messages from senders it determines are bad and that emails are "ordered properly" - according to its discretion. You can run your own "caching service" and connect your email client to that. In this case, that means a fully alternative IMAP provider other than Gmail, because Google's "caching service" is so overwrought at this point that it is barely recognizable as the open protocol it started on. Sure, someone can "speak valid email" to you via your Gmail account, but that doesn't mean you'll necessarily see it. "Caching". A harmless performance improvement that definitely doesn't destroy open protocols in order to benefit the DAU and bottom line of centralizers (and besides, you can always just run your own!)