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If I created a curated list of known "good" websites that I find "trustworthy" and build a search index just with the info there, would that satisfy this? What

• __MatrixMan__ 1y ago
  I think it makes more sense if it's people that we find trustworthy, rather than websites. So there would need to be some place the client could look to find all of that person's content, regardless of which site it was posted on (something along the lines of https://solidproject.org/ https://solidproject.org/). Or if not a copy of the content, then at least a hash and a signature. So for instance if you're browsing reviews on amazon you could filter to reviews in your trust network, and your browser would match the content to what your peers have published and verify that yes indeed, they wrote that review. It's gotta be hosted elsewhere so Amazon can't tamper with it. Also, in order for it to have enough reach I think it would have to be recursive, so it's not just the stuff your explicitly trusted peers have posted/endorsed, but all the stuff from their peers, and their peers, and so-on. Sometimes this implicit FoaF chain could be quite long without being a problem, but if you start running across harmful content, you could explicitly prune the tree in those places, and your explicit distrust would persist so that those parties couldn't reach you thereafter.