I feel like we had the same feeling with WoT a couple years ago, but WoT never came to save us.
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Well, you can still game a semantic search.
Best protection against that is moderating users and/or requiring payment.
WoT is not a plug-and-play solution, it is a group effort of aggregated relational endpoints and edges.
What we can (and should) do with WoT is form trusted networks of relays (nip-66)
What we can do with WoT is offer verifiable consensus amongst moderated auth-enabled relays
What we can do with WoT is manage friend lists and trust scores and curate lists between users and groups.
However what we cannot do with WoT is wait for it to solve problems that are inherent to the protocol.
On dedicated community relays, hashtags don't conflict across a global feed of notes. Each relay has its own collection of respective hashtags.
I have to side with @cloud fodder and nip-66 / nip-42 on the order of hashtag conflicts.
In a smaller world, individual conflicts can be addressed and resolved without mass, global dilution.
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