<story><title>Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub</title><url>https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http</url><text>Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.&lt;p&gt;This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gpm</author><text>How would moderation work here? Like, what prevents me from being literally inundated with people trying to sell me scamcoins, or viagra, or nudes, or whatever the latest thing is.&lt;p&gt;You say &amp;quot;Self-moderating: a user has enough control over what they receive to reject spam content&amp;quot;, but it&amp;#x27;s unclear what that means. Are you telling me I&amp;#x27;m going to have to keep saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x27;t want to hear from ViagraSupplier1493956&amp;quot; every time ViagraSupplier1493957 makes a new account? Won&amp;#x27;t they just automate creating new accounts so I continuously have to reject them?&lt;p&gt;Or is this an opt in system? That&amp;#x27;s not what the word &amp;quot;reject&amp;quot; means to me, but it&amp;#x27;s the other &amp;quot;simple&amp;quot; alternative that I could imagine this describing. If so, is there literally way for a new user to onboard to this network except to convince people to start &amp;quot;listening&amp;quot; to them via side channels (like asking friends on other social media to follow them)? That&amp;#x27;s basically how things like substack work... I&amp;#x27;m not sure I see it scaling.&lt;p&gt;I think it was one of the reddit founders who recently made the point that content moderation is fundamentally about increasing signal to noise ratio, and frankly I can&amp;#x27;t think of a harder problem. When you&amp;#x27;re trying to pitch a decentralized social network to me, it&amp;#x27;s literally the first question I have.&lt;p&gt;PS. The readme links to &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chatternet.github.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;chatternet.github.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;, but that doesn&amp;#x27;t exist.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub</title><url>https://github.com/chatternet/chatternet-client-http</url><text>Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.&lt;p&gt;This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stonogo</author><text>Not implementing server-level blocklists is almost a guaranteed method of getting your instances added to federated blocklists.  I see that this is not ActivityPub compliant, so presumably this would only federate with other Chatternet instances?  If that&amp;#x27;s the case, I recommend hurrying to implement a solid product vision, because otherwise &amp;quot;no deplatforming&amp;quot; is your primary sell, and the people who are buying are perceived as folks who have been deplatformed already.  It&amp;#x27;s a hard problem right now to get some people to separate &amp;quot;free speech&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;hate speech&amp;quot; in social media, and until that&amp;#x27;s got a solution I&amp;#x27;m not sure a slightly-different protocol will move the needle.</text></comment>