Fully agree. Trust is earned, not given, and trust is also contextual. I’ve certainly known pseudonymous internet users that I came to trust for certain things,

Fully agree. Trust is earned, not given, and trust is also contextual. I’ve certainly known pseudonymous internet users that I came to trust for certain things, based on their reliability over time. Would I trust them in a different context? Probably not, at least until I got to know them in that context. I’ve been burned by freely giving trust when it wasn’t deserved, assuming that it would be respected and reciprocated. As you said, that’s just not the world we live in.