I was referring to the ‘trust’ and to the ‘following’ parts, using RSS feeds and blogrolls/curated recommendations as, back then, those could be very impactful to the visibility & popularity of any blog depending which… human being… made the recommendation. Meaning algorithms & bots were and, for the most part, would still be that useless crap they should have remained ;)
I haven’t seen any system like that for blogs (or anywhere yet)
I was referring to the ‘trust’ and to the ‘following’ parts, using RSS feeds and blogrolls/curated recommendations as, back then, those could be very impactful to the visibility & popularity of any blog depending which… human being… made the recommendation. Meaning algorithms & bots were and, for the most part, would still be that useless crap they should have remained ;)