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Interesting stuff. The problem with decentralized search is that it is essentially an adversarial problem. A "friends" list or social graph would go a long wa
by CuriouslyC 3y ago
Interesting stuff. The problem with decentralized search is that it is essentially an adversarial problem. A "friends" list or social graph would go a long way towards providing a trust framework to build decentralized search on, that way trust scores for friends can be propagated out and used to rank results.
- synctext 3y agoyes! Spam is real and every stranger could be a spammer. Decentralised trust is the cornerstone of our work. Big topic 25 years ago around the Pagerank patent time. Now we are one of the last remaining academic teams on this topic. We deployed a decentralised trust algorithm based on the interaction graph to 94k people, see [1]. Theoretical foundations are based on proving that the Harvard impossibility result against Sybil attacks made too strict assumptions, [2]. Leading to trust scores with resilience against fake identities: MeritRank [3]. This is being released in first version in this Tribler version. So hopefully this trust framework will help stop spammers a bit. [1] https://research.tudelft.nl/files/89353583/1_s2.0_S1389128621001705_main.pdf https://research.tudelft.nl/files/89353583/1_s2.0_S138912862... [2] https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/files/96914542/p1263.pdf https://pure.tudelft.nl/ws/files/96914542/p1263.pdf [3] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09950 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.09950