John LeeAug 17, 2023
Dare Obasanjo

Community notes is one of the most thoughtful and innovative features to cone out of Twitter.

It provides a model for fact checking of content across a breadth of topics regardless of importance of the topic which means you end up flagging both big lies like election misinformation but also small lies like rise & grind grifters posing besides rented cars claiming to be millionaires.

Centralized fact checking via companies like Snopes aren’t going to catch the latter. https://vitalik.ca/general/2023/08/16/communitynotes.html

What do I think about Community Notes?

Aug 17, 2023 at 11:18amWeb
Show threadDare ObasanjoAug 17, 2023

The primary cleverness of the Community Notes algorithm is that it detects political extremes in an emergent manner and then requires notes to cross a threshold of “both sides find this helpful” to be published.

While it means a lot if fact checks don’t get published it does mean that the ones you see are far less controversial than those you see in other fact checking schemes.

Show threadDark Sage Torunka Aug 17, 2023

@carnage4life I generally agree with you, but I should point out:

>But what interests me most about Community Notes is how, despite not being a "crypto project", it might be the closest thing to an instantiation of "crypto values" that we have seen in the mainstream world

"Crypto values" can't encompass Community Notes because the algorithm they use relies on identity (verified phone number + time + centralized moderation) whereas crypto values only paraidentity (I have money, I buy votes).

Show threadmuxauy 🚴🇪🇺Aug 17, 2023
@carnage4life yeah, I'm genuinely surprised that it hasn't been killed already