# מוניטין מאוחד **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [15 בספטמבר,‏ 2021,‏ 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federated-reputation/203679 "2021-09-15T20:11:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![hellekin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/hellekin/32/51636_2.png) [@hellekin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/hellekin)\ **Post date:** [15 בספטמבר,‏ 2021,‏ 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federated-reputation/203679/1 "2021-09-15T20:11:15Z")
On the SocialHub, @keunes proposed to [federate reputation](https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federating-discourse/1910) in the sense that **if Discourse supported ActivityPub** , people could use their existing reputation on one or more Discourse instances across the Internet to bypass the initial trust levels 0 and 1 and go straight to 2 (member) level when joining a new board. > I just created my first post on this Discourse instance, and because I’m new here I can only post two links. Understandable, but rather annoying. So I was thinking: isn’t there a way to fediversify Discourse, particularly my Reputation? > > E.g. in the AntennaPod forum we could set SocialHub as a ‘trusted trust source’ and allow users to benefit from their trust levels gained elsewhere. Indeed, when you’re a known netizen with a good reputation, the limitations of lower trust levels might come as a burden when joining new forums. OTOH if you gain a bad reputation, this could also prevent you from gaining privileges on new boards (e.g., play as a negative weight on your trust level promotion, although this is easily circumvented by using a new identity). So the idea is really to facilitate sharing reputation of good behavior across Discourse instances. As a global network of Discourse instances is already existing, with a number of users here on Meta who also dwell in multiple other instances, it becomes increasingly desirable to unify identities across instances for regular users, so that conversations become more fluid. ActivityPub is one way of doing it, and we’re currently exploring ways to create a plugin to add ActivityPub support for Discourse, which could serve as a basis for other federated features, including this one. ### Parallel History @erlend_sh reminded me of this drive-by proposal from three years ago: > [@Revitalizing the Discourse Hub](https://meta.discourse.org/t/revitalizing-the-discourse-hub/15029/34): > > Thinking of the trust levels system for users, I would extrapolate to identify friendly communities, maybe based on the overlap of users and cross-linking between them. I can’t find an example of bad-behaving communities (and please, don’t tell me any) but I guess a hub would be able to correlate like-minded communities… > > In some future, when one email would enable users to connect to many Discourse instances, the hub might also become a way to keep a public user profile that a newly joined community would tap into to create the user’s profile without bothering her. In some cases though, users might want to keep their accounts and participation separate, as in work/home dichotomy, and this should also be supported. But maybe this goes way beyond what a simple hub would mean. ### Summary of interesting features proposed #### Opt-in > [@TheBestPessimist](#): > > First thoughts crossing my mind regarding the “reputation migration”: > > - this should be opt-in per forum > - this should be opt-in per user (see 1) #### Network of Trust > [@TheBestPessimist](#): > > - there should be an editable whitelist (maybe provided by discourse itself) of allowed forums > - there should be an editable blacklist of allowed forums > [@erlend\_sh](#): > > A user who has attained TL 2 on Meta should get bumped straight to TL1 when joining any forum that has listed [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) as a Trusted Forum. > [@Simon\_Manning](#): > > If the network of trust were introduced, I would like to see support for a Trusted Trust List as well as Trusted Forum. I.e. a Discourse instance might publish its Trusted Forum list and I could choose to trust [meta.discourse.org/trusted-forums.json](http://meta.discourse.org/trusted-forums.json) on my instance, for example. (Non-recursive, probably) #### Discoverability In [post #4](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federated-reputation/203679/4), @erlend_sh proposed to add “communities in common” with other users, and eventually port badges across communities to make it easier for members to discover new communities. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/federated-reputation/203679)._