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> Yes, those would be the lists of approved channels that clients use Who moderates the list of channels? Who decides which curated lists of channels are avail
by bastawhiz 3y ago
> Yes, those would be the lists of approved channels that clients use
Who moderates the list of channels? Who decides which curated lists of channels are available?
> most people won't be viewing channels that don't moderate.
Who decides the moderation policies? Who enforces that the moderators are doing their jobs, nominates new ones, and fires ineffective ones?
> Does that make sense?
Nothing you described is technically infeasible, it's just you're trying to describe a federated system while avoiding storing data on federated servers.
The problem is not in storing or distributing the bytes, it's about policy and governance. What you're describing is a federated system, with power being put in the hands of the people who maintain the lists of channels and the people who decide which lists to publish to their users (assuming they're different people). Someone is still in charge, just not a singular centralized authority. That's a federated system, and they exist already, and the social and political problems with running them are well known.
- crazygringo 3y ago> Who moderates the list of channels? Like I said, groups of people create lists the way adblock lists are currently created. > Who decides which curated lists of channels are available? Viewers will come with default popular lists (like adblockers do), but anyone can add any list or channels directly. > Who decides the moderation policies? Who enforces that The owner(s) of each channel. > it's just you're trying to describe a federated system while avoiding storing data on federated servers. Exactly, since there are a lot of problems we know are associated with that. > What you're describing is a federated system, with power being put in the hands of the people who maintain the lists of channels and the people who decide which lists to publish to their users (assuming they're different people) Exactly. That's really the most crucial part here. > the social and political problems with running them are well known. Are they? Because I'm not aware of any federated system set up in this particular way. Subreddit moderation works pretty well, and adblock lists that adblockers use work pretty well, so I'd love to know if there's an obvious social/political gotcha I'm missing here.
- zeryx 3y agoI know crypto is a curse word here, but what you're describing is literally a perfect use case for IPFS and a DAO
- Accujack 3y ago...or just basic public key crypto for non repudiation and authorization of admin actions.
- vineyardmike 3y agoHow would IPFS help here? IPFS is a data-replication utility - it doesn't work well for mutable data (eg. comments).