Shifting our Web of Trust With Zeronet Trust Rank

[caroasi]

A proper web of trust system increases reliability, comprehensibility, and general usefulness of the internet. Current internet service uses a "CA" (central certificate authority) systems to determine who and what is and isn't trustworthy. Zeronet is a decentralized peer-to-peer internet that is based on a web of trust. Zeronet replaces this with a Trust Rank personal peer evaluation where the individual has core responsibility to determine who is and isn't trustworthy, with this decision delegated to known people to determine trust of unknown people. Authority starts with each individual, and only then forms collectively.

A Trust Rank is created by each Zeronet participant. Participants delegate trust and control in ways that create a secure network generally by ranking who they trust from most to least. This trust can be general or detailed as to the kind of trust such as performance trust, technical topic trust of some kind, or another topic of trust. A participant then delegates authority to others based on that ranking to mark specific Zeronet data or unknown people as trusted or distrusted.

Trust networks are then further built by honor. Consensus begins by two trusted participants that also trust each other and share that either publicly or privately with others, forming trust groups. When a sufficient level of trust forms as trusted participants assign honor to people or information, the information is considered consensus-accepted.

Zeronet (ZNET) shifts focus from websites which have hidden backends to portals which generally have open-source distributed backends, and use the Trust Rank among other ways to filter content. On Zeronet, this Web of Trust is used to form a peer-to-peer web hosting system. The Data Negotiation Service to discretely forms a trusted perspective of contact information and internet traffic reports. A trusted perspective of organization and personal reputation and economic data if formed using the Public Settlement Network (PSN). A bias-reduced perspective of news and facts by the Public Content Network (PCN). Other key information including basic communications, open market exchange, and collaborative projects. This is all managed by a simple "cog" on the Zeronet App Store. A cog is basically a Zeronet-specific app, but with system-wide capabilities unlike with a browser extension.

Full description: zeronet.rainrd.org

[Ucy]

I believe a proper decentralized trust system should be trustless regardless of high trust of a participant....this means everything should always be reviewed, verified or proven right regardless of participant trust. Notwistanding, participant with high trust score (or contents with high review) should gain more visibility or be ranked higher. You could have a special homepage where only their contents or products appear, and a default homepage to show all contents/products regardless of trust but with visible trust score in users content or product page when clicked open. An option to filter out  bad trust users while leaving the positve, neutral and no trust users should be available on the default homepage

Again, contents or products must pass through evidence based, permissionless reviews for issues before they become more visible and creator/producer rewarded with trust point. The review method allows anyone to go through a content/product to see how right/good it is. Any proven issue is highlighted with proof why it's an issue, and this can also be challenged by anyone with evidence that counters the provided proof. High trust people may have final say on unresolved or highly contested reviews. Review ends once no actual issue is found.  Cumulative trust from reviews display on participants profiles

This method is compatible with Bitcoin/crypto principles.