This is an archived early stage project and has been superseded by https://github.com/social-protocols/social-network. The reasoning behind archiving was: coming up with (and answering) yes-no questions is more effort and a higher entry barrier for participation than just posting anything and having up/downvotes - like in a social network. Requiring this formalization of all content on a platform creates an entry barrier, e.g. people need to formulate what they want to post as a yes-no question. At the same time, it disallows content, which does not fit the yes-no question model. Our big insight was: We can drastically simplify the user interaction and allow arbitrary content, but keep the collective intelligence aspect. That's achieved by introducing a concept similar to twitter community notes, but in a recursive way: Every reply to a post can become a note. And replies can have more replies, which in turn can act as notes for the reply. Notes are AB-tested, when shown below a post, if they change the voting behavior on the post. If a reply changes the voting behavior, it must have added some information, which voters were not aware of before, like a good argument. For more details, see the global brain algorithm: https://social-protocols.org/global-brain/
Enable useful discussions among thousands of people.
Inspired by Polis, the idea is to create a discussion interface which resembles the mechanics of a real-world one-to-one discussion. But instead of having a single person as a counterpart, a user has a large crowd of people on the other end. By offering familiar actions, like ask a yes-no question, answer a yes-no question, clarify definitions and/or context, users can apply strategies and experience they know from real-world discussions. They don't have to learn a new paradignm to engage and contribute in a discussion.
Try it: https://propolis.fly.dev
just reset-db
just developOpen in browser: https://localhost:8000
Start release web server:
cargo run --releaseThen benchmark:
just benchmark