Decentralized Community Graphs
{"type": "project", "title": "Decentralized Community Graphs", "website": "https://maitri.network", "createdAt": 1706501279126, "credentials": {}, "description": "We’d all like to see Zuzalu grow and expand *without losing its magic* and there have been a lot of great discussions around how to empower community members to invite more people to join us, balancing inclusivity with exclusivity and accountability. More broadly, how can we have a decentralized community that scales while preserving its ethos and culture?\n\nRelationships exist along spectrums, often involving asymmetries and other complexities, and social graphs have not generally addressed the subtleties of concepts like closeness and trust sufficiently. Limiting our thinking about membership in groups to binary terms is similarly inadequate.\n\nOur proposed contribution toward addressing these issues, and others, is to build a Decentralized Community Graph (DCG) that combines the concepts behind web of trust and quadratic voting to better represent communities, with all their loose ties and overlaps.\n\nWhile this project might start by serving the Zuzalu community, DCG will be fully decentralized and privacy-preserving, empowering many more communities with fully programmable tools to meet their specific needs.\n\nThis deck outlines our thoughts in greater detail:\n\nhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wpnZi6xhlvDQMazWD4nVzGufzB5LgFQDsl_30b3vl9k\n\nDCG is still in the design phase, as we only started working on it less than a month ago, and we have not raised any funds. We expect we could have an MVP available for Zuzalu by the end of April ‘24.\n\nThere are six of us that have been working together full-time for 3-4yrs. Leo, Jesse, and Cait were all residents at ZuConnect, and Jesse and Cait were also in Montenegro. We are all actively involved in many different zuzalu-inspired community projects.\n\nFor some additional background on us, our main pursuit is decentralizing social media by incentivizing interoperability between social media applications (web2 & web3) so we can all benefit from shared network effects and eliminate the inherent winner-take-all dynamics. That project is Maitri."}