There will be a web of trust, with a valuation of nodes by trustworthyness. And people will get only one id for this. Ones name is ones value and a reputation will be a hard earned thing again.
This was how the "internet" functions in the book "Ender's Game".
There is a small sub-plot about how he had to give a fake persona credibility on the untrusted network in order to be able to leverage a creating a fake account on the trusted network.
But yeah, maybe the idea that you can even 1% trust random content on the Internet without having a source doesn't really make sense if you think about it IMHO. Either you do this web of trust, coming from a well know real world source, or be Wikipedia-like with linked reliable sources for the viewer to check.
By the way, wasn't this how Google ranked pages back in the day? Ranking pages that get linked to higher? And even before that there were P2P web rings.
ratg13|2 years ago
There is a small sub-plot about how he had to give a fake persona credibility on the untrusted network in order to be able to leverage a creating a fake account on the trusted network.
dredmorbius|2 years ago
Explained: <https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/635:_Locke_and_De...>
grotorea|2 years ago
But yeah, maybe the idea that you can even 1% trust random content on the Internet without having a source doesn't really make sense if you think about it IMHO. Either you do this web of trust, coming from a well know real world source, or be Wikipedia-like with linked reliable sources for the viewer to check.
By the way, wasn't this how Google ranked pages back in the day? Ranking pages that get linked to higher? And even before that there were P2P web rings.
carlosjobim|2 years ago
thenickdude|2 years ago