we plan on having as many "web of trust" like features as possible at some point, like for example you could get recommended content / communities that users you upvote participate in, this can be implemented easily, and it's very open and P2P.

but in our opinion it's not technically possible to have moderation/discovery that is fully web of trust for a few reasons:

• you need to bootstrap from somewhere, you can't just start "syncing/downloading" content. randomly, and then start manually liking/disliking stuff to build your personal web of trust from scratch. people dont want to download gbs of data and like/dislike stuff for hours to get started.

• pure web of trust is easily gameable, you can make millions of bots that upvote each other to rank themselves to gain better rank in other people's web of trust.

• pure web of trust doesn't have DDOS resistance, someone can completely DDOS the gossip network and prevent you from ever bootstrapping a real web of trust.

also assuming someone would develop a scalable, ux friendly and ddos resistant pure web of trust algorithm, it probably would have a UX that's very different from reddit (and message boards in general), and our goal is to recreate the UX of reddit/message boards exactly, because we like them. The thing we don't like about them is the centralization/commercialization/etc. For example we don't like that reddit killed apollo/rif, we don't like that they ban very popular subs that a lot of people enjoy, etc.