Re: Meronymity

The reputation algorithms of Quora, Stack Overflow, Reddit are more or less
proprietary. It may be up to us to prove that standardized VCs and DIDs are
good for business.

Adrian

On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 5:52 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't see how this reputation system is resistant to Sybil attacks.
>
> It could be if you had a "trusted witness"[1], an "issuer-known
> pseudonym"[2], or a "link secret"[3] (I think?).
>
> Quora is a great example of a social network that uses meronyms,
> granted, all of it is self-attested. You've got people on there with a
> picture and a name (but in the age of AI, who knows if that's real!?),
> and then you can see their occupation (again, is it real?), which
> gives you some confidence that they actually know what they're talking
> about.
>
> There are other tools employed, such as the person asking the
> question/engaging in the discussion is the comment moderator for the
> question they answered, which puts some level of stress on them, but
> results in tamping down a fair bit of troll-y behaviour. This part is
> important for sybil resistance as well.
>
> Non-meronym-based VCs could be used to establish some level of trust
> in the individuals qualifications and then additional VCs could be
> issued by a trusted third party to establish the meronym, which might
> be associated with an ephemeral DID.
>
> All that feels fairly workable and an iterative update to the way some
> of the less toxic social networks work today (Quora, Stack Overflow,
> Reddit, etc.).
>
> Nice find, Steven! :)
>
> -- manu
>
> [1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9031545
> [2] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-di-bbs/#pseudonyms-with-issuer-known-pid
> [3] https://hyperledger.github.io/anoncreds-spec/#term:link-secret
>
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> Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
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>
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