That’s a crap ton of loli servers.
Thank you, awesome clarifying work. THANKS MODS for all the work, I'm sorry for what you have to deal with. Some humans are really bad.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
I'm new to this idea and tool, so I have some questions:
How do you deal with conflicting bubbles or chains of trust? Say the trolls all endorse each other and claim you're the troll, while you and your friends do the opposite. Who wins?
How to get started with sharing my opinion on who to trust?
There are two answers to that, one general and one for the specific problem you mentioned.
How do you deal with conflicting bubbles or chains of trust?
You choose who you trust and then go from there. If you trust them, you should trust anyone they trust, thus forming the chain.
Say the trolls all endorse each other and claim you’re the troll, while you and your friends do the opposite. Who wins?
To even have a say in whether someone is censured or not you first need to be guaranteed by someone. My instance for example is guaranteed by fediseer.com
(which is the root node to get the chain started, it won't be used in the future because instances will guarantee for other instances). And for example kbin.social is guaranteed by me.
Here's one slightly longer chain:
fediseer.com
-> lemmy.dbzer0.com -> discuss.online -> utter.online.
Each node in that guarantee chain has a say in who they trust and who they don't. So, in theory, if utter.online
starts spamming, discuss.online
should withdraw their guarantee. If they don't lemmy.dbzer0.com
should withdraw their guarantee for discuss.online
which in turn will invalidate its guarantee for utter.online
.
How to get started with sharing my opinion on who to trust?
If you are an instance admin, find someone who will guarantee for you
Edit: Here's a detail page for the instance you're on.
Awesome, thank you for the detailed explanation! It's so clear now.
When I looked around, I couldn't find a similar explanation in the links you provided in the original post. But I guess it might be helpful for other people, too. So if you like, why not add a "how does this work?"-section? You can use roughly what you just wrote.
With a friendly smirk, I endorse fediseer.com
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