Jimmy Wales

I wouldn't want my mom to wander there at night.

It's like mad down there.

So maybe Wikipedia is the town square.

Although I don't encourage people to come to Wikipedia to fight about things.

That's just not very fun.

I have a little side project called Trust Cafe, trustcafe.io.

It is truly a pilot project.

I don't really promote it a lot.

The idea is like, what if we had a social network where the content that is promoted is based on the trust that the community has in the person?

So there's this whole trust system where you can trust other people and you can earn trust.

You can increase your rank in the trust rankings.

It's truly an experiment.

And there's a lot of open questions.

It's more of an exploration.

But I personally think there's something interesting there.

I wouldn't be bothering if I didn't think so, which is when we have social media where the algorithm just promotes things based on total engagement.

You know, a great way to get engagement is to be a jerk and take extreme positions to get attention.

You know, like that's not healthy.

And it also leads us, if we participate too much there, to a pretty dark view of human nature.

And it's also very addictive, right?