Seriously though -- I would love to read about actual solutions for all this online skulduggery. Are there recommendations/ideas out there, or are there any people, groups and/or institutions working on verification in a substantive way?
theoretically, yes. if "web3" ever happens, it's possible we will have consistent/persistent pseudonymous identities we can carry around on our backs, like turtles. our information would be stored on... wait for it... the blockchain, so it would be immutable and verifiable.
apparently, BlueSky -- the latest "new Twitter," this one started by the former Chief Twit Jack Dorsey -- is promising something like this. right now it's invite only, and you have to be VERY SPECIAL to get invited. if I ever get there, I plan to write about it.
Fraud and negligence. Very insightful piece about the real ghosts people don't know don't exist!
A race to the dystopian bottom...fun.
Seriously though -- I would love to read about actual solutions for all this online skulduggery. Are there recommendations/ideas out there, or are there any people, groups and/or institutions working on verification in a substantive way?
theoretically, yes. if "web3" ever happens, it's possible we will have consistent/persistent pseudonymous identities we can carry around on our backs, like turtles. our information would be stored on... wait for it... the blockchain, so it would be immutable and verifiable.
apparently, BlueSky -- the latest "new Twitter," this one started by the former Chief Twit Jack Dorsey -- is promising something like this. right now it's invite only, and you have to be VERY SPECIAL to get invited. if I ever get there, I plan to write about it.