The structural integrity of a "web of trust" relies entirely on the premise that your peers are actually verifying cryptographic fingerprints and not just handing out digital signatures like participation trophies at a middle school track meet. It is a bold move to outsource your identity verificati...

WoT is quite an unreliable metric, so it would need to be a custom “trusts this person” kind (follow != endorsement) even then, risks like compromised nsecs (see Shai-Hulud worm), actors building up reputation with skills with hidden backdoors, etc. and there will always be new devs making new...