The core of this network, even by the words of the founders, is that the unique content is everything. Yet when you look into how things work. That is not at all true. Popularity is everything.

Well said. I see it in the comments I get. I don't think Proof-of-Brain works on a fundamental level. If you were to follow 'an expert' how do you know this is an actual expert talking? You don't

You'd actuall need some analytics and better yet, machine learning tools to check who is right most of the time. And I'm affraid that een these tools would need an expert to even use them. Either this is a though nut to crack or just maybe I'm missing something.

So either this:

If they have bots which are scanning for plagiarism then that same bot could acknowledge the scale of the unique content a post provides.

Or what would be easier: an editor in the blockchain which would measure how long you'd be writing a post but this too could be gamed by a bot I think. It would be just much harder to do. And it wouldn't stop people who have little to say but are writing many words without much meaning.

So again, how do you extract meaning from text?

Or you find people by hand and follow them but the point is I'm already following many of them. Maybe their post was a one-off and I just happened to read it. Maybe you should gradually loose people who you are following if you don't read/upvote their posts? Or have a summary service which summarizes your best followers?