I really like how this can flow out into real life communities and help them become more decentralized, whilst also connecting them all.

Exactly!

By creating the mycelium for them to connect with, we can allow for so much increased communication, sharing of information, goods, and experience, as well as a much safer & easier way for people to connect with other freedom-loving humans, thanks to the focus on reputation.

It's not easy to come up solutions to some of the issues on here, especially when anyone can have numerous accounts and use them in a negative way. It is a shame that we now have come to a point where to prevent this, we would need to invite people or have them referred, but I completely understand it.

I feel like it's necessary to not give the option to game the system in those ways, because if it's an option, then people will go for it.

Plus, invite only (with tracking of who invites & vouches for whom) gives a lot of ways to limit bad actors. If its discovered that someone is an agent (or a thief, rapist, etc), then as well as the various methods of conflict resolution, healing, and restitution that would be sought - the people that person had invited, or was one of only a few vouches for, would be under greater scrutiny.

Obviously this still isn't utopian - because it's the resistance... we have to focus on security a lot more than the grandkids & great grandkids will, once the statists have all glass-bubbled off their cities, with a handful of high-speed trains, and believe lies about how the air outside is unbreathable.