Reputation-based federation Instances you're closer to (interact with more) have higher reputation. Instances with users that your users thumb down/block a lot have lower reputation. Instances that are blocked by your high-rep instances have v low reputation. Once a low threshold is hit, admin is asked if they want to mute/defed from the low rep instance. Reputation isn't global, you can't measure the 'overall' rep of an instance, it's all relative to the instance you're looking from. Thoughts?
I am not totally in favor of this exact idea, but it seems worth thinking further about.
Sure posts gets down-voted for all sorts of things, but in aggregate they do describe the general majority sentiment of the users of one instance. If you dislike that sentiment, you are probably better off moving to a different server. But for those that stay it can be a useful metric to grade content from other servers.
Sure posts gets down-voted for all sorts of things, but in aggregate they do describe the general majority sentiment of the users of one instance. If you dislike that sentiment, you are probably better off moving to a different server. But for those that stay it can be a useful metric to grade content from other servers.