Follows, mute lists and other proxy data (likes, etc) can be a useful tool to build a naive WoT, but they are a temporary crutch. We need to replace proxy indicators of trust with explicit trust attestations, for example: “Alice explicitly endorses Bob as trustworthy to curate her Wikifreedia articles in all bitcoin-related categories.”
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Is simply "Alice trusts Bob" a valid statement in your framework?
Yup. In my framework, attestations are contextual. Some contexts are broad, others are specific / niche. Trust (or lack thereof) in a broad context automatically implies trust (or lack thereof) in all sub-contexts.
The most broad of all would take the form: “Alice trusts (or doesn’t trust) Bob for all actions, in all categories.” In other words, in all contexts. Trust attestations are averaged by your Grapevine to create context-specific influence scores, and the “base layer” of influence scores is the layer that applies to ALL contexts.