The topic came up in this discussion of what feature would you like lemmy to have. I talked with nutomic (one of the developers) a bit about this and he suggested opening a separate topic so we could discuss if and how to implement it best.

  • wiki_meOP
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    3 years ago

    I think the only one that’s “proven” for usage on the internet is bitcoin’s proof of work mechanism.

    I don’t really understand how bitcoin work , and don’t see how it is applicable to project governance (if it’s about giving a CPU cycles that can also be “forged”).

    Do you mean something traditional like “make everyone apply for ID cards then send them registration info by registered post, then set a date when they all have to walk to polling stations…” ? That also sounds like hard work.

    Maybe something like openstreetmap or AAAS (i don’t think they have to do stuff like mailing ID cards), it’s not easy but that’s a reasonable amount of work, not like trying a bunch of different models that end up failing (so you try one and then it fails and you need to try the next one), and if the whole thing isn’t going well you have to figure out if it’s because the model sucks or something else sucks.

    And TBH IMO the only proven thing about traditional voting systems is that they are corruptable. They can be make less corruptable, but those innovations / improvements are also not “proven”.

    Any system that is influenced by people can suck because people can suck, innovating and coming up with something new that “sucks less” is very hard.

    • roastpotatothief
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      3 years ago

      How does openstreetmap governance work?

      I can tell you all about bitcoin’s proof of work if you like. Honestly it’s not a good idea for this application, but you could take ispiration from it. Like have you seen the disroot application process - it’s like proof of work but for humans instead of CPUs?