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Hello, I wanted to share a bit about this project for those who are just learning about it and want to contribute. The reason for creating this project is best summed up as a potential solution the problem of moderation in social networks. The most popular social networks today are proprietary and either rely on users (mods) who have extra privileges or some internal process using AI/algorithms/moderation teams to remove offensive content.

The use of mods can be difficult to scale in decentralized systems. That is, it scales linearly with the user population and where trust is involved between instances, moderation decisions can cause entire instances to be blocked.

Internal processes on the other hand can be frustrating for users who never know why their content or the content of someone they follow has been taken down.

For more information about scalable moderation in federated social networks, see https://codeberg.org/weex/the-fediverse/issues/2 and for some context about this project: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/scalable-moderation-using-a-web-of-trust-model/2005

The use of a web-of-trust is a third option which is under-explored and is therefore worth further study in the context of federated social networks. This project is starting with an improved algorithm from Freenet (https://freenetproject.org/) and creating an API so that it can be connected with something like Mastodon (most likely the Ecko fork which I started in Aug 2021 as part of ).

-weex (David Sterry)