OA Content Hub
Publisher: Medium
Author: Fabian Pfortmüller
16 Aug 2022
Communities = human search engines?
The blog post describes the concept of "proxy trust" in which individuals in a community extend trust to others in the community, even those they have not personally met, based on their shared values and the trust they have in other members of the group. The author suggests that this type of trust leads to better search results and potential match-making within the community.