Checking sources, looking for tells, assuming the other person isn't your friend until some basic trust has been established? I've been online since I was 13 o

Checking sources, looking for tells, assuming the other person isn't your friend until some basic trust has been established? I've been online since I was 13 or so, I saw the tail end of Web1.0 and old school forums and back then the default was nobody knew who you were so the default assumption was that you were full of shit until proven otherwise - and that was before 4chan got big. Social Networks were never really social, now with the pressure of avoiding impostor bots, I think there might be niches for actual web of trust social networks again