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Show HN: Social network where inviting someone makes you accountable for them

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Chirpper is invite-only. When you vouch someone in, they join your TrustChain. Their behavior affects your TrustRank, and that propagates up the lineage. No moderators. The accountability is architectural, not policy-based. You can be pseudonymous, but you can't be unaccountable. Happy to get into the mechanics in comments.

Show HN: Social network where inviting someone makes you accountable for them
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inigyou wrote: post #2

So how do I get invited?

If you go through the homepage, and create a pre-invite account (which is like two button clicks or so) you'll end up on a status page.

This is the cold - no invite path. Where I'll personally verify you're human and attach your cold account to an invite :)

Otherwise, you'd have to be invited.

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Post by inigyou »

Chirpper wrote: post #3
inigyou wrote: post #2

So how do I get invited?

If you go through the homepage, and create a pre-invite account (which is like two button clicks or so) you'll end up on a status page. This is the cold - no invite path. Where I'll personally verify you're human and attach your cold account to an invite :) Otherwise, you'd have to be invited.

So my best interest would be to spam a lot of accounts now that'll be personally trusted by you and reflect poorly on you if I use them for spam later?

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inigyou wrote: post #6
Chirpper wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go through the homepage, and create a pre-invite account (which is like two button clicks or so) you'll end up on a status page. This is the cold - no invite path. Where I'll personally verify you're human and attach your cold account to an invite :) Otherwise, you'd have to be invited.

So my best interest would be to spam a lot of accounts now that'll be personally trusted by you and reflect poorly on you if I use them for spam later?

Yes, exactly. I'm most excited that the concept was understood at all. So cool. Thank you.
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