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Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

Thesis: a web of trust based social network wouldn't have a reliable "global" follower / like / etc count -- it would only be the ones you've seen -- and this would be a feature.

Some of the most toxic behavior on Twitter comes from people trying to become "the most popular person in the room", which also leads to a lot of social messaging which isn't about being constructive, but differentiating yourself in a way that makes you look better than others.

h @h@social.coop

@cwebber A web of trust that works would necessarily have to define what different types of trust relationship mean.

And for that, to work you would need to build a distributed ontology.
Which is why in past years I've been doing some thinking of how an "Ontological Web" should work.

The "semantic web" can't be semantic and doesn't mean anything if you don't have mutually intelligible ontologies.

Bob Mottram @bob@social.freedombone.net
@h @cwebber One thing about building elaborate categorizations of relationship types in a web of trust is that if it's public then this information may also be useful for outsiders who want to break or disrupt the web of trust.
Christopher Lemmer Webber @cwebber

@bob @h Social attacks on web of trust systems are underexplored (partly because web of trust systems are underexplored!)

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