The system formerly known as Freenet has a module known as the web of trust that uses a similar model. It's interesting but runs into a problem of forcing users/hosts to propagate content and messaging they don't wish to be associated with.
There's a reason places like gab or hexbear end up isolated islands, the general population has no desire to be preached to be the lunatic fringes.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What happens when the lunatics own the media and social media? Let them remove all evidence of genocide and corruption? Just accept the insanity and authoritarianism?
ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 3 days ago
Then you get things like the platform you're on where in my case it resides in my house and lets me be that big scary admin/mod. Having the ability to purge bad content and actors from a central space is needed for anyone but the most thick skinned masochists to use a platform.
Plenty of people just want to go talk/post without wading through a swamp of the crap that one uncle brings up at Thanksgiving on a regular basis.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure, mods will always be necessary when it comes to public/untrusted comms, but just like I don’t want my telco or email provider to decide which/when my TRUSTED contacts can contact me, the same is true for the rest of their speech.
Jumping from platform to platform, server to server each time is a bandaid solution which is not censorship resistant, especially against some totalitarian oppressor. A real fix is a solution (e.g. protocol) that enables me to view a single person/entities/orgs comms regardless of what any middleman decides.