Comment by jowea

2 years ago

Sybil problem? You'd have to connect that signature to a unique real identity.

Yeah and so I don't know exactly how I'd want to see this solved but I think something like an open source reputation databases could help. Folks could subscribe to different keystores and they could rank identities based on spamminess or whatever. I know some people would probably balk at this as an internet credit score but as long as we have open standards for these systems, we could model it on something like the fediverse where you can subscribe to communities you align with. I don't think you'd need to validate your IRL identity but you could develop reputation associated with your key.

That's fine though. It takes care of the big problem of fake content claiming to be by or about a real person, which is becoming progressively easier to produce.