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The thing that stops me pursing this idea though is how do you verify contributors to this new internet aren’t platforms/businesses? Where do you draw the line
by lmpdev 1y ago
The thing that stops me pursing this idea though is how do you verify contributors to this new internet aren’t platforms/businesses?
Where do you draw the line?
Who gets to draw the line?
- xyzzy123 1y agoEven if you could do it perfectly (distinguish "authentic people" from slop merchants) the same old actors will do the same old things as long as the incentives are there. They will just wear "real people" like skin suits. Almost worse :/
- sircastor 1y agoThis is an incomplete thought, but a friend of mine has this idea around reputation built through a sort-of key signing. You get a key, your friend gets a key, you sign each other's keys. The key can serve as an indicator of trust, or validity that an individual's contributions are meaningful (or something). And if your friend suddenly turns into a corporate shill, you could revoke that trust. And if the people haven't established their own trust with that person, their trust goes when yours does. Transitive trust. It obviously has some flaws, and could be gamed in the right circumstances, but I think it's an interesting idea.
- moron4hire 1y agoSounds like following people on a social media platform and only reading posts from in your network. Which is exactly how most people I know use Bluesky. It works better than Twitter's algorithmic feed but it's still not foolproof because not everyone has the same idea of what sort of content they are willing to trust/ track.
- DaSHacka 1y agoIsn't this just a standard pgp web of trust? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
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- salawat 1y agoAnything that requires the end user to internalize PKI is dead on arrival. A) The interface won't get intuitive enough. B) The asshats will still find a way in. C) Ain't nobody ever met someone in the real world and gone "Yo dawg, what's your public key?" Encryption is just a machine that turns already hard problems into key management problems.
- asplake 1y agoWhy that line in particular? It seems not to be about the quality of the content. Part of the issue is that businesses were advised to produce useful content, but the motivation for doing so is disappearing. A net negative, surely?
- JKCalhoun 1y agoA plug-in. Trusted users thumbs up/down sites and ratings are recorded in a database. The plug-in visually differentiates shite links (according to database) so others can avoid clicking on them (or they can hide them altogether). A kind of PiHole for just shitty SEO sites.