ivanmoony t1_iw6pp4m wrote on November 13, 2022 at 11:09 AM

#517,364

Can witnesses lie?

shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw6puii wrote on November 13, 2022 at 11:11 AM

#517,376

Of course. The more confirmations and details aggregated the higher the chance it's real.

antonyjr0 t1_iw79wpb wrote on November 13, 2022 at 2:42 PM

#518,463

So you only need to pay/have 10 people to make a fake news? (What happens if you have 100 people to invalidate a real news)

The concept seems very interesting but the execution is not up to mark.

shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7b2of wrote on November 13, 2022 at 2:51 PM

#518,529

Replying to antonyjr0 (#518,463)

There is no concept of validation and invalidation of news in the simulator. A rumor changes its status to news on 2 confirmations but after that it's up to you to decide based on number of confirmations how real it is.

antonyjr0 t1_iw7csyt wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:04 PM

#518,618

Replying to shanoshamanizum (#518,529)

So no way better than a centralized or traditional news. Then what's the advantage in this. We already have twitter, and retweet which seems like the confirmation step.

shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7dxri wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:13 PM

#518,670

Replying to antonyjr0 (#518,618)

The biggest one - no one owns it. All people host it. No censorship, no ads, no paywalls, no surveillance, no curation, no algorithms, the list goes on...

antonyjr0 t1_iw7elp8 wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:18 PM

#518,707

Replying to shanoshamanizum (#518,670)

Yeah I agree open source projects are better with respect to privacy but we already have technology similar to this. If you don't like Twitter then go for Mastodon.

shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7f5l2 wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:22 PM

#518,741

Replying to antonyjr0 (#518,707)

It still has admins and servers because it's not p2p and flat. Also Cyber Witness is focused on directly witnessed news only. Other than that of course we can have as many as we like with variations. The whole point of diversity.

antonyjr0 t1_iw7gb1r wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:30 PM

#518,806

Replying to shanoshamanizum (#518,741)

It seems like you are using IPFS which is p2p which is good but I would still prefer Mastodon since its Federated. Any p2p app leaks IPs of all those who share the data which is really bad for anonymous journalism. With mastodon you can host a instance in a country where they don't sell you out.

But still your app is cool and strive to improve it. Maybe make it Federated.

shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7gnxi wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:33 PM

#518,823

Replying to antonyjr0 (#518,806)

Yep, it's really just a fun game/simulation rather than an app to be used as a social media.

omgitsjo t1_iw7k5hr wrote on November 13, 2022 at 3:58 PM

#519,002

How does one prevent self-confirmation? If it's anonymous, can I confirm myself a dozen times?

shanoshamanizum OP t1_iw7kk5k wrote on November 13, 2022 at 4:01 PM

#519,024

Replying to omgitsjo (#519,002)

No, you are anonymous to the app but not to the underlying network of IPFS where you are pseudo-anonymous. The app uses the peerID, encrypts a portion of it and uses that as identifier.