The distributed intention behind notabug is brilliant - I basically agree that power corrupts and all these sites can be turned if they take off.
Notabug is not for everyone: Having the vast majority without an identifying label and casting unlimited meaningless votes makes for a real mess that is almost too chaotic to bother with. No doubt you have your own reasons for not attempting a more standard reddit clone with minimal censorship....
Could Poal be distributed? If not, what would need to be done?
Possibly, but the totally chaotic state of notabug is itself temporary.
There will be moderation features, and in many ways they will resemble a more traditional reddit clone:
But somethings are a consequence of the distributed nature. Most prominent being the way votes work and how anyone can vote as much as they want.
Proof of person is not a solved problem:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoUBI/comments/2v2gi6/proof_of_identityproof_of_person_the_elephant_in/
Until it is, it's not possible to enforce 1 person 1 vote, even in a centralized system really.
The planned moderation features are experimental. Hopefully they turn out to be functional. I personally won't be using them.
Sure, you can't strictly enforce one-person one-vote. Having labelled accounts with content vote limits at least encourages that though. Notabug basically encourages the opposite.
Most prominent being the way votes work and how anyone can vote as much as they want.
Can you basically describe why this is the case?
First it’s not totally accurate, it’s gated by cpu power but the difficulty is very low.
The reason is because it’s not possible to ensure one person per account without a central authority.
Even with a central authority it’s difficult, see Facebook manipulation.
As the space system progresses though you will be able to have verified/authenticated sets of users more similar to a traditional site, but there aren’t any real precautions against alts.
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