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[–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If I was going to make something like this, it would have to incorporate trust chains. I don't care if some maga-hat says this lady is horrible. I care if my good friend Alex says she's horrible. One person's "this person won't shut up about communism" is a big red flag (no pun intended) but for someone else that's the dream.

When you sign up, you'd need to be referred to someone or be a root node. Anyone connected to you can be weighted differently. If some section of the tree is misbehaving, prune it.

But that's a lot of work

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It makes me super uneasy. I can easily see this type of model being expanded and applied to more and more things.

    Call for a refund because something you ordered never showed up? Wrong trust chain, you're automatically lying, refund denied.

    Report someone for T-boning you? Wrong trust chain, you're now arrested for hitting them.

    Etc...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It's less about technology and more about evading accountability, I'd say. This would be a sort of cyberpunk version of "How dare you accuse the baron's son of tipping your cows?! He's a fine upstanding young man, so of course these accusations are groundless."

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