🌫️ `Neighborhood`: Trust and Safety

[zspencer]

• https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/issues/892
• https://github.com/zinc-collective/convene/issues/103

One of Convene's key goals is to:

• Build high-trust relationships between Neighbors and Visitors and
• Protect Neighbors from malicious Domains and Actors

We intend to take a pretty heavy-handed approach initially, building upon the wisdom and prior art of folks like:

• @Are0h
• @CaribenxMarciax
• @gingerrroot

Use Cases

• [ ] Registration Protection
  • [ ] Operators may prevent registrations from particular domains
  • [ ] Operators may allow registrations from only particular domains
• [ ] Neighbor Moderation
  • [ ] Operators may block a Person from any #create or #update actions.
  • [ ] ???
• ???

A Brief History of Trust and Safety

Web 1.0 improved data security, bot-mitigation and spam prevention through SSL, sender filtering, etc. Services like Barracuda and (Akamai](https://www.akamai.com/) led the charge at the network level, while SSL became the standard for secure Client <=> Server communications.

Web 2.0 further reduced malicious, brutal, or disturbing content through active moderation and automated flagging, and even some community-based collective blocking such as BlockTogether. LetsEncrypt made SSL available without cost to every site that wanted it. Fastly and Cloudflare popularized low-cost, drop-in Web Application Firewalls. Facebook, Google, etc. began investing in manual and automated content auditing and moderation (with varying degrees of success and bias).

The Fediverse ("Web 3.0") has #FediBlock and similar projects and began to normalize personal authentication keys in the form of "Wallets".

[zspencer]

Some random gibberish thoughts for later

• What if we leverage / license thebad.space to populate shady-domains
• What if we had different "levels" or "kinds" of trust? I.e. a High-Trust Federated Neighborhood or Space could have different federation behaviors than a low-trust, unknown, suspicious, or malicious Neighborhood or Space
• ???