"Trust-based social verification, revocation, signalling, and redistribution"

Correct me if I'm wrong but sounds a lot like how things work right now. I mean, for example, someone who nobody had heard of a year ago now 'ranks' highly through number of following accounts.

If that persons keys got comprimised, they'd just use a backup set of keys and announce to inner-circle that they have new keys. Followers unfollow old and follow new.

I guess this is trying to address imposters and spoof accounts? Like someone who has global or significant audience. I feel nostr is not really the place for this. It's not that it couldn't serve that demographic, just that audience need to understand that verification is always something that is an active process.

If audience can not take responsibility for that, they also must realize that when tagging an account of said significant person, the response they get from said account might not be person they assume it is (i.e secretary/ P.R, etc.)

You could be duped into watching a deepfake from a verified account, or a body double in meatspace. Surely this responsibility to verify sources and the system to verify will scale given time?