Editing DGF comparisons (section)

== SourceCred ==
2018

First Discourse post: https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/ipfs-cred-feedback/17

Wiki: <nowiki>https://sourcecred.io/docs</nowiki> 

Eulogy 2022: "SourceCred the organization is winding down"   https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/sourcecred-the-organization-is-winding-down/1383

SourceCred seems to have been a reputation mechanism that was created by/for Protocol Labs (famous for creating and running IPFS).

I didn't find good documentation that gave hard specifics, so I'm not capable of definitive statements about it without spending energy I'm not willing to spend by back engineering the code.

So based on the metaphors and allusions in the vague documentation, I have only a vague understanding of the system. That in mind, it seems very gameable and therefore broken. It is completely open to sock puppet attacks. Just spam the network with positive reviews of your own contributions and then you will take power in the system.

So it can't work.

That said, there is a lot of overlap with us--the tools they're using and the systems they're trying to build are very close to ours. So a lot of the solutions they've landed on are similar to ours. ''They just haven't closed the loop with integrity.'' If they make some changes it would be our system. Those changes are minor on one level (technical), but major on another (philosophical). Specifically, the loop they needed to close is how to input money in the system and how to distribute it. Their money is called ''grain'' which is a Web3 digital currency token which didn't have a lot of specifics detailed in the documentation. I don't understand it well enough to comment on it.
[[User:Craig Calcaterra|Craig Calcaterra]] ([[User talk:Craig Calcaterra|talk]]) 10:18, 18 June 2024 (CDT)