RE: PeerVerity: The New P2P Trust & Knowledge Protocol from Blocktrades! A Decentralised Social Proof Network!
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I recall having a conversation about Dan's intention to build this at HiveFest in Thailand. Very cool to see some progress. There are definite advantages to a decentralised approach. Review brigading - whether positive or negative is one. The disconnect between audience and critic scores for movies.... Even standards of evidence for fact checking.
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Reviews of #movies are already very popular on Hive. At one point, we considered creating a combination of object types, such as movies, actors, studios, etc., to lay the groundwork for an IMDB-like data structure on Hive.
However, Waivio has currently prioritized products for social shopping, though interest in movies remains high.
When reviews and user ranking votes are published on the open blockchain, it becomes possible to find like-minded users and discover new movies based on their recommendations.
Hi! This reminds me of what taskmaster is building. Have you seen this post?
https://peakd.com/hive-167922/@taskmaster4450/bringing-rotton-tomatoes-to-hive
Thanks for the link. I agree; building an open, decentralized, wiki-like database of movies has a lot of potential. The transparency of voting and ranking on the open social blockchain can bring about profound changes in the movie industry, improving the process of movie discovery along the way.
Hey @grampo! I'll look into it. Does waivio have a peer-trust-reputation system for movie reviews?
Each object type has its own set of rankings. For example, restaurants are rated based on Ambiance, Service, Food, and Value:
For movies, there could be its own set of rankings, such as Acting, Direction, Plot, etc.
Each vote is recorded on the blockchain and signed by the user. As a result, it is easy to trace the votes of people I follow (trust) and compile a list of recommendations for discovering movies to watch.
Alternatively, it is possible to find like-minded individuals if their votes tend to match your own, and you can compile a list of movie suggestions based on their votes for movies which you have not yet watched (ranked).
With each vote a user casts, the system will be able to refine suggestions even more effectively. We are talking not just about finding similar movies, but rather about identifying films that have been positively rated by like-minded individuals.
Thanks for the detailed response. That's your solid structured data layer ;)
Across publishing, standards of evidence have become practically random, IMHO. I was agog with disbelief when I realized staid and respectable scientific journals were blatantly misstating false information as factual, destroying in some cases a century of hard won integrity in a single paper. Being able to track adherence, or failure to do so, to standards of evidence may go far to enable trust in certain resources that have seen their integrity degraded merely because they are in fields where others have abandoned it. I'm thinking of BMJ, for example, that has not abandoned it's integrity where JAMA and NEJM did, which most people may not be aware of because they have not read these journals and discerned these lapses and adherence to standards, but just discount the entire edifice of science publishing, and even science itself.
It's interesting you bring up academic journals - that level of academia operates on peer review! However, anonymity in the peer review process makes auditing and transparency difficult. The other thing about academia is that different disciplines have different standards for evidence. Each community of discourse establishes their own and I think there's value in those differences that a p2p system could express.
This is true. There are also means of assigning reviewers to papers, and other mechanisms that reduce the integrity of the peer review process.
Thanks!
I foresee some of the resulting networks, if public enough, being a mirror of linkedin, with people in certain industrial/academic circles just parroting each other and rejecting everyone else. lol.. At least to begin with, though that might change over time.
I imagine the majority of data will be kept private though, no-one wants gangs of unknown thugs turning up at their doorstep to convince them to change their stated public position on particular topics!
A big difference in a p2p system is that you can eventually tune out the sources you don't trust.
Absolutely, yes, though it can get complicated quickly!