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I do wonder why a more decentralised approach hasn't taken off.
Basically, centralization is needed for deleting fakes, viruses, wrongly labeled stuff. Totally decentralized approach will have all the negatives KaZaA had in the 00s ("matrix.avi.exe").
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recently, people have been fired from their jobs when their political affiliations/donations have been made public i wouldn't put it past someone somewhere out there in the politically correct machine to fire/not hire someone because they admit that they watch porn
I hope you're not referring to Brendan Eich, because he was not fired: he left Mozilla of his own free will, in spite of the board's request that he stay. It was his non-apology apology and his stubborn refusal to transparently and honestly explain and justify his actions, which did the most damage to Mozilla and his own reputation. He decided on his own to leave Mozilla, because he didn't believe he owed anyone an e…
Powered by Isohunt? Now that's interesting! Have to agree about the old database, and the search ain't all that accurate. But still, nice finding.
Bear in mind this is isohunt.to, which has no relation whatsoever to the old Isohunt: http://torrentfreak.com/isohunt-to-from-zero-to-the-8th-bigg...
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I've been thinking about this problem, too. (Reputation in a decentralised & anonymous web.) What would stop someone from creating fake users? They could easily form a realistic 'social network' over time, giving them some legitimacy. Together a large number of fake users can defeat any form of voting / quality control. I find this stuff very interesting, let me know if I'm missing an obvious approach.
Well, obviously PGP has the whole "web of trust" thing but that's a bit hard to use. You can use crypto to "sign" things, so simply "signing" your upvotes and downvotes attaches a person to a vote. Then you let users upvote and downvote other users building a web of trust and a black-list. Signed-upvotes and downvotes would get passed around in the swarm itself as content. The hard part is the new-user bootstrap. The…