@ruminations
100% agree.
Follows is a lagging indicator best suited for platforms like linkedin, which are designed for navigating IRL trust, power, and affiliations
For platform focused on content — me following you 1 year ago says 0 about the current quality of your content.
This is why Quotient’s Farcaster Cred Score prioritizes recent interactions likes, recasts, replies, and mentions over follower / following relationships (although we do incorporate new follows, as new follows are an indicator that the user is creating compelling content).
This allows our scores to adapt to reward users for producing content that generates quality engagement, regardless of how many followers they have
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