> your trending mints are going to be different, and possibly very different from mines, because it's personalised!
Why? I don't see much proof of this.
1. Mints are very different from content, relays, niche services, ... Unlike with those, there's very little design space for them to be anything else than a commodity.
2. Without the mint auth'ing you (and thus turning it into a bi-directional relationship), what's stopping most users from just going with the fastest, cheapest, hardest one? What exactly breaks that centralizing feedback loop?
Hard-coding apps to stay away from mints that have over XXX reserves?
Then you probably end up with the same centralization, just more hidden across "different" mints.
3. Me and you using the same mint is the cheapest, most friction-less option. Scale that to all the other profiles in our networks and the incentives are there for us all to use the same mint.
This is why I'm interested in solutions that by default limit a mint's scope to groups of people explicitly trusting each other in some way.
I don't see many other decentralizing forces besides that.
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