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The problem with any such system is there is money from capturing eyeballs, so once any system gets popular a lot of people will dedicate time to spamming it. I

• Cilvic 6y ago
  Maybe there is a way to align spamming and curation? I mean what if all those people working on SEO would actually work on curation?
• akavel 6y ago
  Hm; a sibling comment about p2p made me start thinking about some kind of "authority" system, with personal tracking. I know it'd be a lot of work for everyone, bit it still sounds maybe doable to me. Like if everything posted to the "directories" was signed by its author, and you'd be able to mark entries (links) as valuable or not for yourself, which would be tracked in your local authors DB, by tweaking particular author's total score. Then you could share your list with friends, who could merge it into theirs, but still marked as coming from you. I know, kinda complex (and reminescent of gpg's "web of trust"), but maybe still could be an alternative to centralized services like google? Also the emerging p2p networks like dat/hypercore or ipfs or ssb already auto-sign people's published data, so maybe this could be tapped into...
  • bduerst 6y ago
    Even those types of authority systems can be gamed as well, unless you're also building your own recaptcha pattern analyzer too. The problem with decentralization is that it creates a power vaccuum that is filled by the most interested actors. Even bitcoin, with it's decentralization-by-design is actually centralized to a handful of miners in China.' If the goal is to rebuild something that is anything else other than profit based, you need to make sure the organization running it is strictly non-profit.