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Yeah. I can see web-of-trust mechanisms similar to the ones Google uses to try and determine quality sites, or how Facebook used to be for friends, friends-of-f
by brundolf 4y ago
Yeah. I can see web-of-trust mechanisms similar to the ones Google uses to try and determine quality sites, or how Facebook used to be for friends, friends-of-friends, etc. There's some territory to explore here. But for the core, IRL connections, online communication should still mostly work as-is
Interesting idea: a social network that attempts to verify that two people actually met as real humans in-person, to increase the trust you have in friends' extended trust networks
- mr_mitm 4y agoSpeaking of which, why doesn't Threema or Signal use the web of trust? They already have the key verification feature. Is it due to privacy concerns?
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoSignal didn't store your social graph on the server, it's only device side (privacy reasons). So a query for transitive trust would have to be implemented in a p2p way. I could see that becoming problematically combinatoric.