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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by paulsutter on Monday September 20, 2021 @10:15PM (#28601376)
Web of trust is rudimentary, something closer to pagerank is needed and that would rely on up/down votes which also need to be signed
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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by ArneBab on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:48AM (#28613988)
What would be closer to pagerank?

Freenet ranks others by their distance to you and weights their votes from that before aggregating them.

And the up- and down-votes in the Web of trust are signed, because that is what happens automatically if you upload something under your key in Freenet.

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by chalst on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @01:27AM (#28755768)
Raph Levien implemented an attack-resistant trust-metric that had some formal similarities to PageRank for Advogato, a free-software developer community which failed: it turned out it needed some moderation even with this mechanism, and it didn't get enough. But the ideas and experience might be useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advogato

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Re:Freenet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resista... by ArneBab on Sunday October 17, 2021 @07:12PM (#28900597)
This sounds like it tries to establish the notion of global respectability (see https://web.archive.org/web/20170628190710/http://www.advoga...). It’s something that I consider futile β€” part of the huge failure of clearnet moderation: To moderate billions of people, you have to give up on the notion of a global notion of who is always right.

It might be possible to establish for a given not heavily contested fact whether it is correct, but not to establish for a given person whether they are a crank. Just ask people around the world about the POTUS.

Freenet replaces that by personal trust. The only remainder of a global trust is initial visibility via seed-IDs. And that is transparent and can be revoked by every user.

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