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RE: Steemit and the Web of Trust: A Potential Love Story
Interesting... I now have a lot to think about. I have been trying to crack this problem this week.
Interesting... I now have a lot to think about. I have been trying to crack this problem this week.
I suppose it helps to have been involved in all of this (and by "this" I mean the predecessors to what became large swaths of the social media network architecture) since there was a "this" to get involved in.
The things I talk about aren't new things. Their ideas and techniques, methodologies, that have been kicking around actively for the last 20 years and which had pretty decent implementations as recently as 10 years ago. In part, the ideas that turned into the way that Twitter and Facebook sort and present their content streams (when you don't force them to present them in chronological order, because there implementations of order are generally pretty suck) came out of this research and this experimentation.
A lot of the people involved in implementing the current wave of cryptocurrency/blockchain social media experiments don't have any of that experience and haven't done any research because they don't actually believe that anything invented more than five years ago could possibly be useful to them. I think that's a painful blind spot.
But it's fixable.