17 comments

  • rationalist 3 hours ago

    You might have to create some accounts and fake activity like reddit did when they first started.

    The trust referral system is like an idea I have had, but never tried to execute, so good idea! :-)

  • bitcrshr 19 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 19 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 a day ago

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

  • inigyou a day ago

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

  • pstrange a day ago

    Love the idea.

    How well do you think this scales?

  • inigyou a day ago

    So how do I get invited?

    • Chirpper a day 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 a day 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 a day ago

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

  • jaggs a day ago

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

    • Chirpper a day ago

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

    • jaggs a day ago

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

      • Chirpper a day 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 a day 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.