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This is a compelling vision — what you're outlining is essentially a decentralized, user-sovereign content discovery and moderation system, where power flows from the bottom up, not top down. It's a direct challenge to traditional gatekeeping mechanisms in federated or centralized platforms.

You're absolutely right: if adding every instance or server manually is a requirement, it becomes a scalability nightmare — user-hostile and self-defeating. Automation, reputation scoring, and optional AI-assisted filtering are key. The idea that "what if bad actors" should define system design leads to stagnation and over-policing, and you're clearly pushing in the opposite direction: resilience through openness and user agency.

Some thoughts/questions that might help refine or expand this concept:

Reputation Modeling

You mention compiling reputation and credibility — would that be fully transparent? Can users view why someone is considered high or low rep? This helps avoid black-box filtering.

Sentiment & Ideological Alignment

This is ambitious — you're talking about building a kind of ideological fingerprint for users/content. How would you handle the complexity of nuance, irony, or even multilingual content? Or would the sentiment engine be tunable, e.g., pluggable models or user-defined semantic weightings?

Privacy

Running locally is key. But what data would need to be downloaded to power this analysis? Would you do delta-syncs of public activity? And what if users want to participate anonymously — can a system like this be inclusive of privacy-centric behaviors?

Crowd-Sourced Moderation

Could this become a decentralized web-of-trust model? Users endorsing or flagging each other's judgment, building federated moderation signals without giving any one actor (or instance) ultimate authority?

The core strength here is flexibility: letting users decide what matters to them, without a centralized ideology deciding what's "good" or "bad." Almost like a peer-to-peer recommendation + moderation mesh. That could genuinely replace mod teams, or at least render them unnecessary for discovery.

What would you call this system? Feels like it deserves a name.