Verification will very quickly become an issue on Fedi, I believe.

Even now, we have multiple “Linus Torvalds” accounts.

Some have thousands of followers and a few posts, but do we know if any of them are actually him? Including the newest one on .social…?

Obviously Linus should know how to paste a link into a website he owns for verification.

However, if normal users can’t do it, it’s not good enough. What happens when/if celebrities start signing up? They’re not gonna be linking to a website they own for verification.

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  • BrikoX@freeradical.zone
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    2 months ago

    @BeAware@social.beaware.live I have no idea why Elk refuses to mention you properly. Might be a bug.

    Relying on 3rd party platforms is far from ideal and like you mentioned unrealistic as it would require API access which would be easily blocked.

    Realistically, I can only think of one idiot-proof verification system. Credit card, but that opens up instances to storing payment and identitity data or outsourcing it to a 3rd party service. Anything else would be user based and require at least some input from them.