In the Freenet Project we’re solving content moderation with propagating trust — and visibility slowly increasing with social interaction, which is free for hon

In the Freenet Project we’re solving content moderation with propagating trust — and visibility slowly increasing with social interaction, which is free for honest users (who just want to communicate) but has a cost for spammers and disrupters. The main tool is to drop the idea of a global definition of trustworthiness: You have seed IDs to find people who supply CAPTCHAs, but otherwise all trust is computed locally. If you want to try this, there are two steps: - First the current state in Freenet: https://github.com/xor-freenet/plugin-WebOfTrust/blob/master/developer-documentation/core-developers-manual/OadSFfF-version1.2-non-print-edition.pdf https://github.com/xor-freenet/plugin-WebOfTrust/blob/master... - Then the optimizations needed so this scales to arbitrary size: https://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/deterministic-load-decentralized-spam-filter https://www.draketo.de/english/freenet/deterministic-load-de... Here’s some data if you want to test algorithms: https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Freenet_social_trust_graph_extracted_from_the_Web_of_Trust/4725664 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/The_Freenet_social_tru... And some starting code of a more generic prototype for faster testing: https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/wispwot/ https://hg.sr.ht/~arnebab/wispwot/ (if you prefer a slightly larger writeup that might expand as time moves: https://www.draketo.de/software/decentralized-moderation.html https://www.draketo.de/software/decentralized-moderation.htm... )