Note the close date is arbitrary and will almost certainly change. Resolves NO if I decide not to do it. Resolves NO if I don't get a signoff from the Manifold team. Resolves NO if I give up partway through. Otherwise resolves YES.

The gist of it would be:

• Markets and posts get translated into ActivityPub-style posts

• These posts can then be liked, shared across Fediverse instances

• I will make a bot, which will

  • Each time a unique like/share is given, tip the associated market/post [1]

  • Each time a post is replied to, add it to the comments on Manifold, unless [2]

    • It is from an instance blacklisted by [insert instance with decent moderation policy here]

    • It is from a manually-blocked user

    • It is from a user that opts out via some flag

    • It has a privacy setting such that it shouldn't obviously be public

• Footnotes:

  1. Might require external subsidy, and the tip rate for each should vary. For instance, a share might tip in proportion to the account's followers

  2. In order to look good, this will require some changes to the Manifold comment API

     1. It would need to have features which are priveleged

     2. It would need to allow priveleged users to comment with a different, not-taken username/displayname

     3. It would need to allow priveleged users to comment with a different avatar

     4. It would need to allow priveleged users to comment where their name links to a page other than their profile

I think this is worthwhile to pursue, and I've started a thread about it in the manifold discord

Close date updated to 2023-06-30 11:59 pm