I've found Gilles DePemig :TwinPines: (npub12p3…qkcg) 's work very helpful for me in thinking about social trust.
"Mutuals are not friends" is a key insight that a "Follow" is a helpful signal, but not as strong as we often make it out to be.
This is why I'm hopeful we can make progress on "Endorse". It *is* a bit more fiddly, another command for users to understand so I do worry about making things more complex. But it is a significantly stronger signal, an explicit trust signal (vs interest signal that Follow indicates)
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Scott Jenson
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2026-07-25 17:22:21 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…2jyc
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