If you could tell the world anything, what would you say?
How much would you pay to share that information?

In the wake of the arrest of Pavel Durov, I'm reminded there is an ongoing fight for freedom of speech.

Today, I begin designing 'Stonewall Data Permanence', a tool to give normal people the ability to publish and comment on any topic, permanently, without moderation or censorship, with their content made easily discoverable by others.

Keep an open mind while considering the resulting behavior of the few core design decisions:

-anyone can post and comment anything about any topic, permanently and optionally anonymously
-users pay per-character to post and comment
-posts and comments may receive funding from the author or readers
-posts and comments are ranked by monetary value

This design accomplishes a few things:

-Misinformation is magnitudes more expensive to promote- consider that factual competition is indexed in both adjacent posts & their comments
-bot/spam protection (economically unfeasible)
-transparency of funding enables users to optionally filter content based on funders' behavior (bot-like patterns)
-promoting information correlates directly to spend
-the world collaborates to prioritize content

Assuming this recipe provides novel value, the unknowns are tech stack and indexing. For the tech stack, I want Bitcoin's data permanence with Ethereum's smart contracts. I'm considering Ethereum, Rootstock, and Stacks as the main contenders for trust-minimized code execution.

A front-end will need to be bulletproof with a reverse proxy on SporeStack, eventually.

For indexing, maybe I'll first implement a basic topic lookup with a community-based 'similar topics' list within each topic... maybe some kind of vectorization that isn't gamifiable... perhaps community-driven.

I'll keep building