• Mister Bean@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Couldn’t you have the main instance take care of it? I don’t exactly know how activitypub handles votes but if they’re reported back to the users home instance it could be calculated there.

    For example if I had a reputation of 12 and I posted on a different instance and got enough votes to get 1 extra reputation those votes would be reported back to my instance which would update my rep accordingly.

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      3 months ago

      But how would I, an external instance, know your true reputation? Would I need to ask your home instance and just trust that? So when I ask “what level of trust should I put in this user”, a malicious instance could just say “a million reputation points” and I just need to trust that? I don’t see how this is going to work.