Decentralized
With exceptions being few, none of us enjoys the choice of being dictator, nor would any of us choose to suffer living under someone else's neither. We should all participate.
Hierarchies (city council meets in town, state reps to the capital, ..) has been how we've historically done this.
Oragnizations, too (eg. stockholders vote on leadership). Regardless, power ends up centralized.
But using a decentralized approach, each of us can fully control our own view as well as who's allowed or blocked from affecting that view. (Action can come next.)
You trust, you block, others do, too. That's the network. It's not difficult to compute your network from your point of view.
No center, no hierarchy, no payola, no editorial board, no temptation or opportunity for corruption or bias (other than your own)
From each of our individual perspectives, we're its center.
Identity Layer
Who's human? Who's who?
Reality - figuring out if a key represents an actual human being and who that human is fact, and it's the first layer.
Statements you sign and publish using your identity key determine that layer.
... TODO: Tom/ Yotam / Tommy.. not email, not social security, not my browsing or navigation history, not my prescription meds...
TODO: I vouch that this key belongs to Tom...
We do expect fraud, anticipate it, and are designed for it.
If someone I trust trusts a key and another blocks a key, that's a conflict. The key either is or isn't controlled by a human.
TODO...
degrees..
POVd
Conflicts
Affinity Layer
) and opinion or affinity (figuring out if something might be interesting to you) are computed by aggregating the data around you.
What's interesting?
Opinion / affinity: