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Peertube Chain of Trust and Follower Index (git.btfree.org)

submitted 4 days ago by ozoned@piefed.social to c/peertube@lemmy.world

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I love the Fediverse. I love Peertube. Our strength is we're decentralized. Our weakness is we're decentralized. How do we find like instances and things WITHOUT an algorithm?

Well I run tubefree.org. I know Makertube.net is a good instance. I follow that instance. However, I trust the admins there, why not follow who they follow? Thus we have a chain of trust.

How do I do this easily though? I came up with a script: https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex

Want to USE the index on YOUR Peertube so you follow everyone I follow, and follow those I trust and who they follow? Go to your Peertube - Settings - General - Federation - Check "Automatically follow platforms of a public index" - Index URL: https://ptindex.btfree.org/ .

Want to be involved in the chain of trust? Message me! I'm here @ozoned@piefed.social , @ozoned:matrix.org , ozoned.01 on Signal, @ozoned@btfree.social on Fedi, ozoned@btfree.org via email.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So kinda like an algorithm but open. Can't check yours in depth now, but having done local algorithms before, it's great for transparency and predictability, so congrats on the idea. 👌

Also from what I could skim on the code, I didn't notice anything on the sort, so I wonder if there's weights for this chain of trust in the code, like someone followed both by someone I follow and someone I blocked (iirc Peertube allows blocking? Pls correct me if I'm wrong) would be less relevant to the script.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A personal opinion. How do we normal purchase our goods, or go see a movie, or listen to a song? PEOPLE. We have community to help give us suggestions. We outsource our opinions to a community of like minded individuals right? And I'll get it wrong, or it won't be for you, but the script is out there. Start building your own!

Ooooooo ... weights ... I hadn't thought of that. That sounds like a GREAT idea. I added an issues to address this maybe in the future. https://git.btfree.org/BTFree/PTIndex/issues/2

[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 1 points 4 days ago

Didn't mean the first part as something negative. Being usually the one that in my social circles that knows the nicher stuff, algorithms help me a bunch to find new things as asking around can be a quest.

And for clarity, to me the algorithms would be a type of middleman, whose job is to better distribute the nicher stuff, and thus why I interpreted your script as one (sorry if I got it wrong though).

But also, if I'm misinterpreting, feel free to ignore the weight idea if it leads the script to the wrong direction, as the idea is based on my definition of algorithm from above.

edit: engrish