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Great goal! I'm a big fan of social networks for social good, including empowering users, reducing spam, and improving communications. The Planetary project us
by jph 7y ago
Great goal! I'm a big fan of social networks for social good, including empowering users, reducing spam, and improving communications.
The Planetary project uses the Scuttlebutt protocol. I've looked at the protocol a bit, and I love its strengths - such as distributed replication in offline peer to peer settings.
But I don't have a clear understanding of how Scuttlebutt will handle some typical use cases. For example, how to handle accountability, or compliance, or anti-spam training across instances, or stopping mass-spidering across instances. Social networks at scale have tremendous pressures due to attackers, harassers, spammers, etc. and it's non-trivial to stop these, even more so with Scuttlebutt because it would need new kinds of distributed tools and new kinds of user awareness.
If someone here is able to engage with these questions, and ones like them, I would be very happy to provide more info and specifics. I keep my notes in progress at https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/social_network_plan