I don’t think I’ve ever been pro-WoT, maybe WoT curious at times. Perhaps at the beginning when I did not understand it properly.
When you really think about the long-term effects of WoT you realize how detrimental it is to the growth of Nostr.
Until the death of WoT, or at least the current aberration that is implemented by most clients and relays, the OGs who managed to amass a big following just need to sit on their asses while the new user will struggle to get any attention. The new guy’s only hope to become relevant is if one of those OGs looks hard enough and follows them.
The OGs did not have a WoT filter to pass through early on, and had that been the case, most of them wouldn’t even be here. I probably wouldn’t be here.
WoT kills spam but it also kills the host.
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Hmmm, so it appears that I don't understand it properly. Can you help me understand what happens and how is it that affecta my pretty dead engagement levels which many others seem to experience too?
Yes, WoT is a form of nepotism, which is the _opposite_ of PoW.
I'm not an OG, but I arrived right before the WoT stuff started and everyone stopped looking at global, so I've had to really scrape follows together. Npub by npub.
That's why I sit in steerage, even though I regularly trend. It's a paradox that confuses everyone. Why is she always so frustrated and angry, when we all see her stuff and respond? You can see my stuff and respond because I've worked on this from sunup to sundown, every damn day, for two years.
It's been absolutely brutal and if I weren't trying to market projects and promote my frens, I would have long since thrown in the towel.
This has been way too hard. It doesn't make sense that it's such a struggle to post such popular content, but I simply missed the OG jump and am permanently screwed.