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Decentralizing Verification: Bootstrapping Trust in a Trustless World
- znmead 4y agoWhy bottom-up approaches to moderation will outperform centrally-planned ones. - By Nader Al-Naji Decentralized trust > Centralized trust Discuss
- nathanaldensr 4y agoThis feels like content marketing.
- znmead 4y agoWhen do ideas become content marketing? Are decentralized verification and moderation not worthy discussion topics in today's fracturing social scene?
- kniffey 4y agoEverything is "content marketing" for something. Think about it. Unless you want the world to burn, then you are pushing out some idea or concept than Will in the end benefit certain people. DeSo benefits users.
- znmead 4y agoAbsolutely, thank you.
- t-3 4y agoI don't really get why provenance of social media posts is supposed to matter. It feels like a big effort to get people to want a checkmark rather than solving any real problem. There's no technical requirement for trust, no reasonable expectation of trust, no reciprocity of trust. The default sane stance towards the internet has always been to never trust anything you read, and that's a good thing.
- znmead 4y agoTrust matters more when money is involved, as is the case here. You are an internet power user, the masses are not. I agree with the "zero trust" model, but that is not how 99% of social platform users operate. There is reciprocity of trust in this case, that is the point. A system where community members vouch for each other is much more efficient than a centralized authority. People already want the checkmarks, this opens the possibilities for much more than that. For instance: I am a member of a 13-person club. We want to be able to display that on-chain. We issue badges to the members and it's done. Another case: A business or university wants to verify their members as legitimate persons associated with that entity. This allows for that.
- BKPower8 4y agoI would much rather be part of a community whose members are verified amongst each other. Paying for verification does not solve the problem of determining who is a legitimate user. I’m more capable of vouching that a user is genuine through my interaction with them, than a system designed simply to take money and dole out a blue check mark. I’ve never been a fan of anything that is “pay to play”. That’s usually the foundation of a rigged system.
- znmead 4y agoNailed it... pay to play needs to go.
- striga 4y agoIn fact, the checkmark is important not for the person to feel safe, but for the followers to feel safe. Therefore, it makes sense to create a system of mutual validation so that the community can build trust.
- BKPower8 4y agoYes! It’s very helpful to new people who are just starting to engage. It’s a learning curve for some of us and can be intimidating especially where money is involved (like creator coins). Having a true blue check mark has so much more weight than still wondering if the user is only “legit” because they paid to be.
- goldberry 4y agoThis is such an innovative idea.