The thing that stops me pursing this idea though is how do you verify contributors to this new internet aren’t platforms/businesses?
Where do you draw the line?
Who gets to draw the line?
Where do you draw the line?
Who gets to draw the line?
It obviously has some flaws, and could be gamed in the right circumstances, but I think it's an interesting idea.
It works better than Twitter's algorithmic feed but it's still not foolproof because not everyone has the same idea of what sort of content they are willing to trust/ track.
A) The interface won't get intuitive enough.
B) The asshats will still find a way in.
C) Ain't nobody ever met someone in the real world and gone "Yo dawg, what's your public key?"
Encryption is just a machine that turns already hard problems into key management problems.
A kind of PiHole for just shitty SEO sites.