Open mrusme opened 2 years ago
Just an FYI on how Usenet moderation worked...
So, Usenet moderation was and is truly decentralized. A news server admin can opt-out of almost anything including carrying certain groups and the rest of the Usenet would have no say in it. There is no top-down moderation, only agreements between peers.
I don't know all of the ins and outs of OrbitDB. I think a better first step would be to implement simple filtering a.k.a. killfiles. If someone is being a troll, you can simply ignore them. If you want to avoid messages or entire threads with certain keywords, then you should be able to do this also. This is truly the Usenet way of doing things. It puts the power of moderation in the hands of the user, but it also lays the responsibility of avoiding what they don't like in their hands also. Some people just want everything to be easy. Of course, people who only want an easy interface probably won't care about using a terminal-based platform like superhighway84 anyway :) .
Something interesting i stumbled upon: https://github.com/SentryPeer/SentryPeer
As this seems to be a topic many people are interested in, here's a rough idea of how this could be implemented in future. I've detailed this on Superhighway84 already and just copypasta it here for the sake of documentation.
Feel free to discuss/suggest other approaches and ideas.