Appreciate these comments and feedback! Yes, the cold start problem is legit for sure. I hope we can raise a lot of support from whales in the eco system to vote for Signal Scouts / Signal Miners who are really adding great value signal to the web2 content. It is an opportunity to direct resources to create great content consumers, rather than only focusing on bloggers as we have done traditionally.

The idea here is that the signal inbox is one of the main products. each inbox has a feed of creators that the user follows and we can anonomise it and keep track of how often that inbox feed is visited by the user.

this means we can clearly see demand for creators, and then we can inform the Signal Scouts / Signal Miners that that is where they can go to add signal and thereby optimise their rewards, system credits and reputation. So the system may be able to self bootstrap this way.

But i do agree, at the moment we are starting with youtube, twitter, tick tok and instagram who all have their own nuances for bringing in data. but we ahve done some work to enable import of wiki articles and scientific journals and publications to the eco system. i think this is where a great focus should be. however, im more inclined to let the community direct us primarily based off of signal inbox usage, follows and visits.