Cryptography is the one thing in the world that isn't easily defeated by the absurd amount of violence States are willing to commit in the interests of controlling society.
That's a feature, not a bug.
I for one am tired of using coercion to define society and we would do well to embrace anything that disempowers violence.
2. a goal of notabug is to support existing reddit stylesheets with minimal/no modifications; this requires dom compatibility and minimal CSS changes in the base design.
3. reddit is abandoning this formerly open source design in favor of their new design by default.
The Commission's Divisions of Corporation Finance, Investment Management, and Trading and Markets (the "Divisions") encourage technological innovations that maintain the status quo, and we have been consulting with entrenched market participants regarding issues presented by new technologies.
We wish to emphasize, however, that subjects must still adhere to our arbitrary mandates and outdated framework when dealing with technological innovations, regardless of whether the securities are within our regulatory purview or using new technologies we don't understand or wish to succeed.
The Commission's recent shakedowns involving AirFox, Paragon, Crypto Asset Management, TokenLot, and EtherDelta's founder, discussed further below, illustrate the importance of doing what we say. Broadly speaking, the issues raised in these actions fall into three categories: (1) selling things without permission; (2) buying things without permission; and (3) trading things without permission
So one of the fundamental differences between GUN and a blockchain is peers don't need to have the same dataset, or to necessarily agree on the state of the world.
The goal with notabug is that you should be able to run a peer with any sort of moderation structure you like including what you describe.
It's already possible with just ui changes to ignore votes entirely. the new sort works this way.
Comments can be sorted by new in this manner as well but isn't exposed in the UI yet.
The filtering you describe will be achievable with the moderation system I plan to build here:
You would set up a lens with a list of users (public keys) who paid you the verification fee.
You build a space with that lens as the good lens, and lenses for each of your editors to remove or highlight content in other spaces.
I don't know what the best model for online communities is. My vision for notabug.io is to shamelessly clone open source reddit in functionality and UX. But my vision for notabug more generally is as a system for disparate approaches to online forums in a connected system.
The goal here is that moderation won't prevent people from speaking it will make it possible to delegate filtering of content you don't like to other people in a way that doesn't censor the content you don't like outright.
> It's a flaw inherent to democratic Internet voting-based comment filtering, no?
Quite possibly so; increasing the vote difficulty may help here; but one thing to keep in mind is that the proof of work voting is not necessarily the only voting approach that could be supported. The proof of working voting I think works best at a large scale of users something notabug doesn't have yet.
It was something easy to implement that works decently enough for now; but with a decentralized network different peers can experiment with different voting and sorting strategies.
GUN uses a proof of work for account creation/login I think, but otherwise no there is no proof of work requirement for updates.
I added the proof of work requirement to votes as part of my own validation. The difficulty at https://notabug.io is set quite low, but https://dontsuemebro.com is a peer that still has it set quite a bit higher, it rejects the cheaper votes at notabug.io so the scores/sorts are different.
Spent a lot of time focusing on performance, notabug.io is running GUN with redis as a storage adapter and doing server side rendering to speed up the user experience.
Domain pages are currently all gun/clientside though with out the server doing anything special to help at all.
> I really wish someone with more free time than me would combine a bunch of current buzzwords (distributed, blockchain, whatever) and cook up something that was easy to use but still free from the tyranny of special interest and / or profit.
My goal is to replicate reddit, but the distributed nature of notabug would allow you to experiment with these ideas on your own peer, or possibly just a custom UI build.
> All it would take is one great, open forum site to absorb the refugees from a terrible management mistep
This is the goal of https://notabug.io it's a p2p fork of reddit based on GUNdb. Still very early; but my hope is that there will be enough interest in lifeboats that people will be interested in helping to construct one.
Cryptography is the one thing in the world that isn't easily defeated by the absurd amount of violence States are willing to commit in the interests of controlling society.
That's a feature, not a bug.
I for one am tired of using coercion to define society and we would do well to embrace anything that disempowers violence.