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# federation
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A big problem is a lack of clarity on what instances are blocked and why by various instances.
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This is a documentation and accessibility issue as I doubt most instances make neither.
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The other big problem is having central authorities.
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You can see this on the internet now with certificate authorities.
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If a CA is compromised, which they have and they will, then the trust is broken at the root and anything that inherited that trust needs to have it reestablished.
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I’m not eager to apply blockchain to something that is a governance issue.
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An alternative is notaries.
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Sharing inspiration for a design.
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- [SSL And The Future Of Authenticity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N4sb-SEpcg)
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- [Convergence Notaries](https://github.com/moxie0/Convergence/wiki/Notaries)
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The general idea is trusting more than one authority, polling them for a consensus on which instances are filtered/restricted. Many nodes would simply proxy their inherited filters but can change what node they would inherit trust from.
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Much like users pick an instance to join because of a theme or the moderation policies, instances could join a federation because of a grand moderation policy.
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