> User managed or curated indices … Do you mean self-managed? Everything else is effectively the influencer scene. Which is increasingly deplorable as well.

> User managed or curated indices … Do you mean self-managed? Everything else is effectively the influencer scene. Which is increasingly deplorable as well. Anything with wide enough reach becomes cost-effective for gaming. So one would have to return to a highly fragmented world to make gaming the system cost prohibitive. And that would get us to a pre-Internet world. But then again, it’s not entirely unthinkable that we’re headed towards increasing Internet fragmentation if various governments get their way.