Show HN: Social network where inviting someone makes you accountable for them

CChirpper about 18 hours ago 16 commentsRead Article on chirpper.com

Chirpper is invite-only. When you vouch someone in, they join your TrustChain. Their behavior affects your TrustRank, and that propagates up the lineage. No moderators. The accountability is architectural, not policy-based. You can be pseudonymous, but you can't be unaccountable. Happy to get into the mechanics in comments.

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bitcrshr•about 12 hours ago

Odd, I got right in. I think it was maybe 5 seconds, didn’t have to do anything. Curious if that’s a bug or if there’s some automated trust or something. Cool concept though, echoes of GPG web of trust days.

Chirpper•about 12 hours ago

That was just a coincidence of me checking - yes me personally - a human - the queue of new pre-invite users just around the exact time you got through the sign up. Welcome aboard!! Glad to have you.

rationalist•about 15 hours ago

Who is flagging all of the comments? Someone who works for Facebook?

inigyou•about 17 hours ago

Also you say it's the first but doesn't lobste.rs work this way, without the gratuitous blockchain?

pstrange•about 18 hours ago

Love the idea.

How well do you think this scales?

inigyou•about 18 hours ago

So how do I get invited?

Chirpper•about 18 hours ago

If you go through the homepage, and create a pre-invite account (which is like two button clicks or so) you'll end up on a status page.

This is the cold - no invite path. Where I'll personally verify you're human and attach your cold account to an invite :)

Otherwise, you'd have to be invited.

inigyou•about 17 hours ago

So my best interest would be to spam a lot of accounts now that'll be personally trusted by you and reflect poorly on you if I use them for spam later?

Chirpper•about 17 hours ago

Yes, exactly. I'm most excited that the concept was understood at all. So cool. Thank you.

jaggs•about 17 hours ago

Oh nice idea. How do you start to get on?

Chirpper•about 17 hours ago

Make it to the status page - through the homepage, and chat with me - and I'll add you to my TrustChain.

jaggs•about 17 hours ago

I can't see a status page. Do you mean invites page?

Chirpper•about 17 hours ago

You don't see this page? https://chirpper.com/status

jaggs•about 17 hours ago

Okay, so I got an internal server error when I tried to check my status with my codes.

Chirpper•about 17 hours ago

Hmm... checking the logs to see what happened. But you should be able to go to the https://chirpper.com/login page, drop your "key" and be taken to your profile. I've already added all signups from HN to my TrustChain, so you should already be a trusted account.

Chirpper•about 17 hours ago

Found some janky stuff to do with old versions of the cold start up flow from before I settled on the way it works now. Should be fixed now. Thank you so much for testing it.