>> best predictor of quality is "who likes your stuff"

this is very true

_who_ liked your cast is the top heuristic we use to clean up our Trending Feed API and it works most of the time 🪐

docs.neynar.com/reference/feed-trending

If you think in terms of Google PageRank, replies and likes, not follows, are the equivalent of links.

Follows = stated preference
Replies and Likes = revealed preference

+1. Most of my followers are spam 🥲 My feed is amazing though (improvements have worked super well for me), and I love the quality of (most) engagement here.