I am the author of this white paper, posting under the pseudonym Simurgh. Thank you for taking a look.
The Motivation: This project comes directly from my experience watching the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran and the subsequent efforts by the state to fragment and divide the opposition. I felt that if people could only talk to each other at scale and discover their common ground, they would be less susceptible to this strategy.
The Project: This white paper outlines a protocol for doing just that. It's a structured, multi-stage deliberation system designed to be built on a platform with an existing network, like Telegram. It uses three core principles:
Absolute Anonymity: To protect participants.
Structured Process: A tiered funnel to distill signal from noise.
Meritocratic Promotion: To ensure the most well-reasoned ideas rise to the top.
The full architecture, including mitigations for risks like state-level manipulation, Sybil attacks, and bad actors, is detailed in the paper.
My Ask of the HN Community: I am not a cryptographer or a large-scale systems architect. I am posting this here because this community has an incredible depth of expertise. I am looking for your honest feedback, especially on:
Potential failure modes and security vulnerabilities in the protocol design.
Suggestions for strengthening the system against manipulation.
Any thoughts on the overall concept from those who have experience building social or secure messaging protocols.
I am here to listen and answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your time and consideration.
simurgh_beau•4h ago
I am the author of this white paper, posting under the pseudonym Simurgh. Thank you for taking a look.
The Motivation: This project comes directly from my experience watching the "Women, Life, Freedom" movement in Iran and the subsequent efforts by the state to fragment and divide the opposition. I felt that if people could only talk to each other at scale and discover their common ground, they would be less susceptible to this strategy.
The Project: This white paper outlines a protocol for doing just that. It's a structured, multi-stage deliberation system designed to be built on a platform with an existing network, like Telegram. It uses three core principles:
The full architecture, including mitigations for risks like state-level manipulation, Sybil attacks, and bad actors, is detailed in the paper.My Ask of the HN Community: I am not a cryptographer or a large-scale systems architect. I am posting this here because this community has an incredible depth of expertise. I am looking for your honest feedback, especially on:
I am here to listen and answer any questions you may have. Thank you for your time and consideration.